Like most men in Free States he is opposed to Slavery, regrets its existence, and ardently desires to abolish it. But, unlike other Abolitionists, he seeks to accomplish this end by persuasion ...

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A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

A bill moving through the Arkansas legislature would give Arkansans the opportunity to vote whether to fully ban slavery in the state. Catch up quick: Slavery is still allowed as punishment for a ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

Six of these original members were among the largely Quaker group of eighteen Philadelphians that reorganized in February 1784 as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery ...

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 cents a day. Now, he and others are pushing for an amendment to modernize ...

House Bill 121 proposes to remove a punishment clause from a section of the state constitution that allows slavery and ...

Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads "Slavery and involuntary servitude in this State are forbidden, except as a ...