Why did the Fugitive Slave Act outrage abolitionists? Why was the Fugitive Slave Clause controversial? Why are slave codes important to history? Why did the Fugitive Slave Act anger Northerners? Why was the New York slave revolt important? Why was the American Anti-Slavery Society important? Why...
On the South China Sea, it's worth mentioning that China's definition of its borders was determined before 1949, before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Nine-Dash line was promulgated by the then Chinese government in the 1940s, and certainly didn't cause any stir in ...
Why did Henry Clay and William Garrison want to end slavery? Why was the abolition of slavery important? Why does the concept that other countries had slavery ignore the facts about American chattel slavery? Why did Northern workers oppose the abolition of slavery?
Why is it so hard to have a calm, rational debate about same-sex marriage? In the US, Australia and Britain it is becoming louder and more bitter by the day. But the torrent of words flows over stone, unabsorbed by the other side. What many people fail to grasp is that key terms ...
Bertha Flowers takes Maya under her wing, telling her that it is important to speak and giving her books to read aloud, and she begins talking again. At the age of 10, Maya is sent to work for a white woman, who calls her Mary rather than her name (Marguerite). Offended, Maya ...
National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts dives into shipwrecks to recover the histories of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade.
the portrait on her grandmother’s mantel beside other family photographs and memorabilia. It is the only portrait of a slave the family displayed, she says. “It was kept in an esteemed place,” she says her grandmother told her, “because he became a very important pe...
Personally, I’ve been a fan of the outdoors for as long as I can remember. From the days I was belly boarding in the white water shore break of South Wales, through to skating full pipes in the Australian outback, on to riding waist deep Japanese powder and swimming in the line-up ...
Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise History Shorts: The Electoral College's Slaveholding Origins But determining exactly how many electors to assign to each state was another sticking point. Here the divide was between slave-owning and non-slave-owning states. It was the same issue that plag...
Other large states that sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention had institutionalized slavery. At the time, hundreds of thousands of people were enslaved across the South, amounting to about 40% of the Southern population. Under the notorious "three-fifths compromise" decided during the same...