gradual emancipation

Across the Americas, emancipation moved slowly, and profited those who had benefited from slavery most.

A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.

Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?

Connecting the Haitian Revolution and abolition in the 1834 Tennessee Constitutional Convention.

A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

Although he did not openly endorse every one of the many precepts of the antislavery Constitution, Lincoln framed his positions entirely within its parameters.

Virginia engaged in “the most public, focused, and sustained discussion of slavery and emancipation that ever occurred."

Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society's attempts to remove free blacks from the US.

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?

The pre-Civil War North was a landscape not of unremitting white supremacy but of persistent struggles over racial justice by both Blacks and whites.

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.