As the decennial U.S. Federal Census for 1850 was enumerated in Franklin County, Kentucky, young William Wright, age 14, was listed as chattel in the property inventory of John Wilcox Russell.

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850, which was supposed to stave off civil war. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they had escaped to a free state ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. The Pulitzer Prize for History was awarded this week to historian David Blight for his book about 19th century abolitionist ...

This clearly would not do. So lawmakers passed an act that required ships leaving the St. Johns River to stop long enough at Mayport so they could be boarded, inspected — and then fumigated, to drive ...

Robert E. May does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Satisfying the demand for laboring people, 1500-1850 -- The British East India Company and the trade in stout coffree men, 1621-1804 -- Satisfying the constant demand of the French, 1670-1810 -- ...

OP-ED. Professor emerita Marie-Jeanne Rossignol draws a parallel between anti-ICE activists, who whistle to alert immigrant communities of the arrival of agents, and the abolitionists who once posted ...