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  2. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Haiti thus came to an end, and Haiti became the second country on the planet that abolished slavery (after the United Kingdom in 1772). [2] [3] In 1804, Alexander von Humboldt visited the United States and expressed the idea that slavery was not a good way to treat citizens; this was during Thomas Jefferson's presidency.

  3. Reparations for slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Georgetown University: "In 2016 [the university agreed] to give admissions preference to descendants of the 272 slaves[,] formally apologized for its role in slavery [and] [renamed] two buildings on its campus to acknowledge the lives of enslaved people". In April, 2019 students at Georgetown University voted to increase their tuition by $27.20 ...

  4. The 272 - Wikipedia

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    In 1838, prominent Catholic leaders of the Jesuits Order sold 272 enslaved people to fund Georgetown University. The book chronicles the history behind this event by following an enslaved family for almost 200 years. This book also shows how the Catholic Church in the United States depended on slave labor to run its institutions and grow its ...

  5. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Of America's first seven presidents, the two who did not own slaves, John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, came from Puritan New England. They were wealthy enough to own slaves, but they chose not to because they believed that it was morally wrong to do so.

  6. Bryan Stevenson: America's failure to deal with history of ...

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    The "From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration" museum -- which will be constructed on the site of an old slave warehouse, will incorporate human narratives from slavery and Jim Crow eras, as a way ...

  7. What Made America's Founders Perpetuate Slavery - AOL

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    Years later James Madison, tacitly acknowledging that the American Union was a shotgun wedding, explained why the framers did not immediately abolish the slave trade in the U.S. Constitution. If ...

  8. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    In the years to come, the institution of slavery would be so heavily involved in the South's economy that it would divide America. The most serious slave rebellion was the 1739 Stono Uprising in South Carolina. The colony had about 56,000 enslaved Blacks, outnumbering whites two-to-one.

  9. Hulu's 'The 1619 Project' examines the impact of slavery on ...

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    Today, as “The 1619 Project” lives a new life as a series on Hulu (with Hannah-Jones as star/narrator and a producer), its architect still can’t quite believe it all.