passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...

After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery)....

The institution of slavery in North America existed from the earliest years of the colonial history of the United States until 1865 when the Thirteenth...

Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery as it existed in the European colonies which eventually became...

institutions. The first recorded case of reparations for slavery in the United States was to former slave Belinda Royall in 1783, in the form of a pension...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

Although the United States Constitution has never contained the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, it dealt directly with American slavery in at least...

Contemporary slavery Commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States Human trafficking in the United States Penal labor in the United States "Human-Trafficking"...

The history of sexual slavery in the United States is the history of slavery for the purpose of sexual exploitation as it exists in the United States...

Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a...