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Founding Father and Princeton University president John Witherspoon told American colonists to resist the ‘slavery’ of British rule, even as he held slaves himself.
Place names are a rich source of information on the different groups of individuals who shared the land throughout its history.
Michael Meyer, author of "Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity," helps us learn from this great man.
When the novelist first read Gretchen Gerzina’s 1995 book Black England, she discovered the complex and unexpected lives of black people in England before the abolition of slavery. Two decades on, the stories still have the power to astonish
Three days before his death on 26 July 1833, William Wilberforce learned that the abolition of slavery, a cause for which he had spent decades campaigning, was to become law. It received Royal Assent one month later. The Slavery Abolition Act finally took effect on 1 August 1834, 188 years ago today.