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The history of slavery in Arkansas began in the 1790s, before the Louisiana Purchase made the land territory of the United States. [1] Arkansas was a slave state from its establishment in 1836 until the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1865. [1]
From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman's Bureau in Arkansas 1865–1869 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996). Gordon, Fon Louise. Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920 (University of Georgia Press, 2007) online .
Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves [2] either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century. [ 3 ] In Oklahoma before the end of segregation there existed dozens of these communities as many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
The unprecedented 1842 extradition of Nelson Hackett from Canada on a theft charge sparked an uproar in the British colony, The post Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was ...
Took a leadership role in the battle against segregation in Arkansas. [28] Little Rock: Arkansas State Press: 1984 [30] 1998 [29] Weekly [30] LCCN sn90050043; OCLC 10766826 "Dedicated to the memory of L. Christopher Bates." A revival of the Arkansas State Press of the 1940s and 1950s. [29] Little Rock: Arkansas Survey: 1923 [31] 1935 [31 ...
The state of Arkansas had been on edge after the deadly Elaine massacre, in which perhaps as many as 237 Black people were killed between September 30 and October 1, 1919. It was "by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States."
The northwest parts of the state did not have cotton plantations, and as little as 2% of the black population in northwest Arkansas was enslaved during the territorial era. However, northwest Arkansas backed slavery in support of the southeastern Arkansas planters. [37] Different aspects of frontier life are preserved today in three state parks.