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Return to USA Black Heritage Portal American slave owners or slaveholders were owners of slaves in the United States which typically worked either as agriculture laborers or house servants. The practice was common until its abolition in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. For the time being, we are using this as the Slave...
British slave owners “The #FridayFact was not only wrongly judged, in numerous respects it was just wrong.” THE LONG ROAD TO ABOLITION ■ In 1807, parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, effective throughout the British empire. ■ It wasn’t until 1838 that slavery was abolished in British colonies through the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British empire thei...
Please add your "Narragansett planter" families to this project. Collaborators may update the "project" page.From Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting, by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (Google eBook) 1904"Until 1647, each town was governed independently. The situation of each is plainly designated upon the map to-day, but where, asks the enquirer after truth, ar...