However, when California ... slavery leaders formed the Republican Party with the political aim of opposing slavery Dred Scott was an enslaved people who had lived with his "owner" in a free state ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

With that announcement, the Thirteenth Amendment—which ended slavery throughout the whole country—was inevitable. Congress passed the Amendment before the Civil War was even over, and it ...

A student in my “History of the Present” class asked me, “Do Californians really believe slavery is okay?” She referred to the defeat of California’s Proposition 6, which aimed to remove ...

Last November, California voters rejected Proposition 6, the “End Slavery in California Act ... and certainly implausible situation. Before I was handicapped, I had administrative jobs ...

Vice President Kamala Harris' home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in ...

(AP) — A California lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to allow admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University ... in the workplace and civil society. In California, voters ...