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The history of Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery

On June 19, 1865, crowds of slaves gathered in Galveston, Texas to hear an announcement from Union Army General Gordon Granger. “The people of Texas,” said Granger, “are informed that in accordance ...
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The American slave coast : a history of the slave-breeding industry / Ned and Constance Sublette

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...
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Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 / Patrick Rael

Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...
The New York Times

The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...

10 Institutions You Didn’t Know Had Ties to Slavery

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past Racism has existed across civilizations and throughout time, but in the ...
The Heritage Foundation

A Note on Slavery and the American Founding

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...