Slavery was addressed by theUnited States Constitutionwhen it calculated each slave as being equal to 3/5 of a free person for calculating representation in the House of Representatives. While there was no effort to abolish slavery itself at that time, some delegates to the constitutional conferenc...
The country’s capital, Monrovia, was named in honor of President James Monroe. The ACS stands as an example of how white reformers, especially men of property and standing, addressed the issue of slavery. Their efforts stand in stark contrast with other reformers’ efforts to deal with ...
Garrison burned a copy of the Constitution at a meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society on July 4, 1854. Was the Constitution pro-slavery? The changing view of Frederick Douglass Eventually he married and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts where he addressed the August 1841 convention...
it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump...
Abraham Lincoln did believe that slavery was morally wrong, but there was one big problem: It was sanctioned by the highest law in the land, the Constitution. The nation’s founding fathers, who also struggled with how to address slavery, did not explicitly write the word “slavery” in the...
Yet, Crews was still compelled to welcome the man into his inner circle of human dignity occupied by his wife. He claimed that Venit groped his genitals, “squeezing so hard that he leapt back in pain.” He “squealed like a pig” in a hog pen, and a toy doll crying “ma-ma”. ...
In spring and summer 1934, a longshoremen’s strike gripped San Francisco and demonstrations took place throughout the city. Protesters also advocated for Japanese unions, which were being threatened by anti-labor forces in Japan. Lange wrote in her notes, “This was just before the New Deal...
The question to be addressed here is: what light does slavery shed on the nature of Washington's character? WASHINGTON'S CHANGING ATTITUDE ON SLAVERY George Washington was born into a slave-holding family, and he continued to increase his human property until late in his life. ...
“We tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a Civil War, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African American president. I think we are always a work in progress in this country. But no one currently alive was responsible for th...
While many achieved equal democracy and freedom, the African-American population of the US was exempt from these “inalienable rights” and heavily oppressed by society. The cruelty of slavery and oppression as a whole reached its peak in the 19th century bringing upon the abolitionist movement, ...