Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery ...

America celebrated Independence Day in 1776. Slavery wasn’t abolished in the United States until 1865. “In Frederick Douglass’ speech, he talked about ‘how can America be free when its ...

1776, both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and it was removed. The only remaining allusion to the original paragraph on slavery is the phrase "He has ...

The Boston Massacre In April 1776, representatives of the thirteen rebellious colonies meeting in the Continental Congress voted to halt the slave trade. Their resolve to shut down British trade ...

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned ... Jefferson’s original Declaration draft condemned slavery and the slave trade as “execrable Commerce” and a “cruel war against ...

The introduction to Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.