An article about President Abraham Lincoln issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September 1862, to free the Confederacy’s slaves... (Read More)
An article about one of Abraham Lincoln’s most important and powerful speeches: the “house divided” speech he delivered on 16 June 1858... (Read More)
An article about how newly-freed Blacks found missing members of their families after the Civil War using “missing person” ads in newspapers... (Read More)
An article about the 9 March 1841 Supreme Court decision that freed the African petitioners in the famous Amistad case, a slave revolt led by Joseph Cinqué... (Read More)
A letter from a captain in the Union army during the Civil War, telling the dramatic story of “colored” troops freeing Southern slaves... (Read More)
An article about the 13th Amendment being ratified on 6 December 1865, permanently banning slavery everywhere in the United States... (Read More)
An article about two sources for information about ex-slaves: stories in old newspapers; and Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)
While doing genealogy research recently in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, I came upon the obituary of a woman identified only as “a female slave named Alice,” who died at Bristol, Pennsylvania, at the remarkable age of 116! Alice was only 10 when she was taken from her parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Bristol, Pennsylvania... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers and other online resources to learn more about the African slave trade in America... (Read More)
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