Black slaves, Indian masters: race, gender, and power in the deep south -- Enslaved people, missionaries, and slaveholders: christianity, colonialism, and struggles over slavery -- Slave resistance, ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

In 1773 Dinah Nevil, an Indigenous, Black, and European multiracial woman and her four children arrived in Philadelphia from Flemington, N.J, under orders from a slave trader who intended to ...

Jefferson's horizon -- Civilizing the cotton frontier -- Commerce and slavery in lower Louisiana -- The wartime challenge -- Fulfilling the slave country https ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.