Puerto Rico commemorates Emancipation Day, a historical milestone that marks the abolition of slavery on the island.

No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war. The South was using enslaved people to aid the war effort. Black men and women ...

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject ...

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, actually freed few slaves, since most still lived under Confederate control: They remained enslaved ...

The effort may succeed, for an Emancipation party is an exotic in a modern Slave State; and the party in Missouri is not only young, but has intestine strifes that unfortunately impair its energies.

The President, in his important special message on gradual emancipation in the Border Slave States, has not pointed out the mode or means of pecuniary aid in the good work. But there is no ...

In the 1940s, a handful of former slaves were interviewed on a tape ... A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Washington, D.C. institution took root on humble ...

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Because of a lack of record keeping during the slavery era, tracking African American ancestry is a challenge. But a report from 1870 is opening the door for those looking into their past. Before the ...

I was the first Black woman to publish my experiences and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. But although people were ...