Slavery was addressed by the United States Constitution when 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 ef
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 ...
In June 1773, a group of Black antislavery activists sent a petition to the Massachusetts government on behalf of all enslaved people in the province, demanding freedom and reparations. The petition was reproduced in at least two newspapers. Felix Holbrook, the group’s leader, was a prominent...
Thompson, who addressed the town council during the hearing, had said that if government had not intervened to further civil rights, he would still be “in the fields picking cotton.” Article content Thompson told The Washington Post that he was responding to a statement made...
In Southeastern Europe, slavery was present in various forms from antiquity until the nineteenth century. During the 1800s, slavery as a social reality still existed in the Ottoman Empire (including its European provinces) as well as in the Romanian principalities. Wallachia and Moldavia had slaves...
How was the issue of the international slave trade addressed in the Constitution? 3. What was the issue at hand in the Supreme Court Dred Scott case about? How does Nikole Hannah Jones argue that the Dred Scott Supreme Court case was a means to make the Constitution into a consistent docum...
1 Thomas Mayburry, Weaver's former business partner but by 1833 a bitter competitor in the Valley iron trade, may or may not have acted in gentlemanly fashion by "bribing both negro and master," but the fact was that he had thus managed to secure the services of a skilled slave ...
Chapter 14 The Atlanta Exposition Address The Atlanta Exposition,at which I had been asked to make an address as a representative of the Negro race,as stated in the last chapter,was opened with a short address from Governor Bullock.After other interesting exercises,including an invocation from Bi...
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...
The paper argues that the trafficking framework, and the associated language of slavery, has been effective in drawing world-wide attention to serious labour issues in the fisheries; however, if the broader conditions that facilitate the emergence of human trafficking are to be addressed, then ...