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African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
The Trump administration signed and oversaw several federal measures addressing human and child trafficking, notably reauthorizations and statutes passed in the 2017–2019 period, alongside a small num...
held views about race that by modern standards include explicitly racist statements and support for policies like voluntary colonization, yet he also opposed , issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an...
Christian actors historically invoked specific biblical texts—most prominently Genesis 9:18–27 and New Testament household codes such as Ephesians 6:5–7—to defend slavery and racial hierarchy, while o...
There is no single individual recorded in the provided sources as the “first person” to declare slavery an evil that must be abolished; early condemnations date from religious dissenters in the 1600s ...
Slavery in what became the United States was dismantled by a combination of long-term abolitionist organizing, sectional political crises and a civil war, and finally by constitutional change: the 13t...