The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners ...
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Amendment would fully abolish slavery in Arkansas by 2027LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — An amendment recently filed ahead of the Arkansas legislative session seeks to fully abolish slavery in the Natural State. HJR1002 was officially filed on Nov. 20 ...
(LEX 18) — There is a push at the Capitol to get rid of a slavery exception that is currently enshrined in Kentucky's Constitution. "The 13th Amendment abolished slavery for all intents and ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...
The amendment argues that "the Arkansas Constitution is the moral and legal foundation of our state, abolishing all forms of slavery in the Arkansas Constitution represents the fundamental values ...
Adam Hochschild is the author of six books, most of them dealing with human rights. They include Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Macmillan, 2005), a narrative history of ...
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