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Christ Himself proclaimed freedom from sin (John 8:33–36), while Paul proclaimed freedom from the law—both ceremonial and moral.
On a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...
On the evening of December 31, 1862, thousands of Black Americans gathered in churches, contraband camps, and meeting halls across the nation, waiting for midnight....
On the evening of July 31, 1834, thousands of enslaved men, women, and children gathered in churches and chapels across the British Caribbean. In Jamaica,...
On March 9, 1841, seventy-three-year-old John Quincy Adams rose before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The former president, long retired from the...
On August 1, 1834, church bells rang across the British Caribbean as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 took effect. In Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, and...
In the autumn of 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to aid escaped slaves even in...
In the early months of 1822, Denmark Vesey gathered followers at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, opened the Book of Exodus,...
On March 9, 1841, the marble halls of the United States Supreme Court fell silent as Justice Joseph Story delivered a verdict that would echo...
On May 12, 1789, William Wilberforce rose in the British House of Commons and delivered a lengthy speech calling for the end of the slave...
In September 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Dorchester County, Maryland, traveling nearly ninety miles on foot through swamps and forests to reach Pennsylvania. She was free...
In the dim light of Charleston's African Church, Denmark Vesey opened his Bible to the Book of Exodus. It was the spring of 1822, and...
In 1799, an enslaved man named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a Charleston, South Carolina lottery and purchased his freedom for $600. He built a...
Sengbe Pieh was born free. A rice farmer from Mende country in Sierra Leone, he was seized by slave traders in early 1839, shipped across...
On July 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln gathered his cabinet in the White House and read aloud a draft document that would reshape American history —...
On the morning of January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln shook hands for three hours at the traditional New Year's Day reception in the White House....
On January 31, 1865, the floor of the United States House of Representatives erupted. After months of intense lobbying by President Abraham Lincoln and his...