Argus, lamenting the decline in the value of slaves, reports the sale at $800 ... labor of the South was in 1859 worth $1200,000,000, in 1860 it is worth less than $800,000,000 -- a sudden ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

Otherwise the slave shall be delivered to the claimant, pursuant to act of 1860. Such amendments would make the law effective at the North, by knocking away the underpinning of Northern opposition ...

The last known survivor of the transatlantic slave ships, brought to the US in 1860, has been identified by an academic at Newcastle University. Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...

Even in the Northern states, safety wasn’t guaranteed. In 1860, Lucy Bagbe is thought to be the final slave returned to bondage under the newly created Fugitive Slave Law that forced former ...

It operated in secret, decades after Congress banned the importation of slaves, and was intentionally sunk in 1860 to hide evidence of its use. "The discovery of the Clotilda is an extraordinary ...

which was scuppered in the Mobile River in 1860 to conceal its crime of trafficking enslaved people Photo: courtesy of Alabama Historical Commission In the unevenly told story of slavery in the US ...