But first it must be ratified by countries around the world. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United ...

On 1 August 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Act, which made the purchase ... being kidnapped himself: One day, as I was watching at the top of a tree in our yard, I saw one of those people come ...

Image caption, Ottobah Cugoano was born around 1757 in modern-day Ghana. Aged 13 ... demanding a total abolition of the slave trade. Image caption, Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa ...

David Beck Ryden’s research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favor of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition. Ryden examines the ...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is being observed today. Theme for the day this year is Fighting slavery’s legacy of racism through transformative education.

Absalom Jones, co-founder and first pastor of Philadelphia's African Methodist Episcopal Church, preached a sermon on that day, in which ... of Jones and other anti-slavery activists was far ...

He publicly burned a copy of the Constitution, which he viewed as a pro-slavery document. His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery ...

A museum spokeswoman said the painting, set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation, was based on a design commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade on 5 July ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately 1885 on, to abolish the internal slave ...