The census of 1790 revealed that 59,000 free blacks lived in the United States -- approximately 27,000 in the North and 32,000 in the South. By 1830, the total number of free blacks had risen to ...

“We’ve never seen a single day in the United States where slavery was not legal,” he said. “We want to see what that looks like and I think that’s worth it." ___ ...

Slavery was still allowed in states that did not secede from the United States, including Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky. Maryland abolished slavery on Nov. 1, 1864, and Missouri did ...

British Policy toward the United StatesTHE BEECHES, August, 1865. When I speak of the "policy" of a country, I speak of the direction of its governing mind. I do not speak of those persons, who ...