The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (having welcomed... 3 KB (357 words) - 04:23, 24 March 2024 |
the Assembly proclaimed 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. The United Nations emphasizes the fight... 3 KB (348 words) - 01:44, 19 February 2024 |
Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition in 2004 the International Year for People of African Descent in 2011 the International Decade for... 7 KB (732 words) - 13:15, 30 March 2024 |
2004 (redirect from 2004 (year)) and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). 2004 was a year marked by many popular and highly... 38 KB (3,072 words) - 12:58, 23 April 2024 |
culminated in the abolition of American slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Civil War in the United States... 34 KB (3,256 words) - 08:43, 20 April 2024 |
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil... 160 KB (18,480 words) - 19:51, 16 April 2024 |
Emancipation Day (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia) holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery. In Trinidad and Tobago, Emancipation Day replaced Columbus Discovery Day, which commemorated the arrival... 42 KB (4,408 words) - 02:23, 6 March 2024 |
Slave codes (category Slavery in the British Empire) Human trafficking Indentured servitude International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Ohio Black Codes Slave narrative Slave... 21 KB (2,506 words) - 17:33, 20 April 2024 |
John Brown (abolitionist) (category Members of the National Abolition Hall of Fame) [in] 1847, while I continued to write and speak against slavery, I became all the same less hopeful for its peaceful abolition." During Brown's time in Springfield... 228 KB (24,092 words) - 23:25, 23 April 2024 |
William Wilberforce (category Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom) led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage... 92 KB (11,078 words) - 15:23, 25 April 2024 |
West Africa Squadron (redirect from Commodore, on the West Coast of Africa Station) Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery. (London: Macmillan, 2005), ISBN 0-333-90491-5 Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression... 25 KB (2,547 words) - 19:36, 13 March 2024 |
Emancipation Proclamation (redirect from The Emancipation Proclamation) provided for the immediate or gradual abolition of slavery. No Southern state did so, and the slave population of the South continued to grow, peaking... 120 KB (13,553 words) - 18:28, 25 April 2024 |
American Civil War (redirect from Civil War of 1861 to 1865) the mantle of abolition fell to its newly formed successor, the Republican Party. Manifest destiny heightened the conflict over slavery. Each new territory... 255 KB (28,759 words) - 22:25, 26 April 2024 |
South, where the fear of slavery's abolition had grown. Another factor leading to secession and the formation of the Confederacy was the development of... 188 KB (24,736 words) - 02:12, 15 April 2024 |
Kimati Dinizulu (section The Kotoko Society) domestic and international cultural organizations, including UNESCO. UNESCO declared 2004 to be the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery... 19 KB (2,087 words) - 19:57, 15 April 2024 |
Granville Sharp (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia) Clarkson and William Wilberforce led to the abolition of slave trade through the Slave Trade Act 1807. Sharp died in 1813, two decades before the Slavery Abolition... 46 KB (6,466 words) - 20:02, 30 March 2024 |
Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with... 328 KB (45,828 words) - 17:51, 26 April 2024 |
Capital punishment (redirect from Abolition of the death penalty) prohibiting capital punishment and promoting its wider abolition. Several international organizations have made abolition of the death penalty (during time... 197 KB (19,806 words) - 03:55, 24 April 2024 |
Dred Scott (category United States slavery case law) The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was... 36 KB (4,113 words) - 08:04, 1 April 2024 |
La Mulâtresse Solitude (category People from the French West Indies) and heroine in the fight against slavery on French Guadeloupe. She has been the subject of legends and a symbol of women's resistance in the struggle... 10 KB (1,324 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2024 |
and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the... 28 KB (3,577 words) - 03:49, 26 March 2024 |
Juneteenth (category Abolitionism in the United States) holiday in the United States commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Its name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth"... 93 KB (7,985 words) - 16:55, 26 April 2024 |