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Some of these sailors went on to finance abolitionist ... example, was built by Black whalers who had achieved financial independence through their trade. Whaling’s vital role in ending slavery ...

In honor of this recognition, the UN designated 25 March 2007 as the International Day for the Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

By Sara Ruberg A National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad appeared to have been restored on Monday to prominently show the abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, after it had ...

He also owned two slaves, and his newspaper ran notices on the sale or purchase of slaves. In his later years, he became an abolitionist and considered slavery against the principles of the ...

How did you join the property industry? When I started as a trainee, I was convinced I wanted to be a litigator – perhaps because that’s what you see on TV. Fortunately, I joined a construction team ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

One such example was escaping on Saturday nights ... Tubman also received support from famous people who supported the abolition of slavery, including Harriet Beecher Stowe andJohn Brown, who ...

From the 1830s to ... furtherance of slavery was to swell the ranks of the Underground Railroad. Although Rankin’s enemies, as late as 1856, were still burning his anti-abolitionist writings ...

It was named in honor of slavery abolitionist Victor Schoelcher. Recent visitors said it's definitely worth a quick stop in to explore and learn about the history; others point out that the free ...

Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger ...