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View of the Ohio River from near Stephensport, Kentucky (1988) Stone, his nephew Howard Stone, and three other whites were killed on the Ohio River in 1826 by the people he was trafficking south. [22] The news report about his murder, now known as the 1826 Ohio River slave revolt, read as follows: [23]
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
Peter departed for freedom on March 24, 1863, at midnight. [8] Peter had been the legal property of Capt. John Lyons of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana; Lyons owned a 3,000-acre (12 km 2) plantation and was recorded as being owner of 38 slaves at the time of the 1860 census.
The restored John P. Parker house in Ripley, Ohio. John P. Parker (c. 1827 – January 30, 1900) was an American abolitionist, inventor, iron moulder and industrialist.Parker, who was African American, helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad resistance movement based in Ripley, Ohio.
Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting The Modern Medea was based on Garner's story.. Margaret Garner, called "Peggy" (died 1858), was an enslaved African American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery. [1]
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...
Slave owners claimed that slavery was not a necessary evil, or an evil of any sort; slavery was a positive good for masters and slaves alike, and it was explicitly sanctioned by God. Biblical arguments were made in defense of slavery by religious leaders such as the Rev. Fred A. Ross and political leaders such as Jefferson Davis . [ 189 ]
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