Two previously unknown letters by British politician and Christian abolitionist William Wilberforce have been unearthed in ...

During the slave era of the United States most slaves were illiterate, but some secretly learned how to read and write. Some of these letters have survived and chronicle the daily life of slavery ...

Maj.-Gen. T.J. WOOD has written an eloqueunt letter urging the abolition of slavery in Kentucky. He says: Seeing that slavery, in the hands of wicked and designing men, has been used as the all ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Slavery was the central reason for Southern secession and war in 1861. Yet in 2024, two candidates for president, Nikki Haley, who failed to mention slavery as the war’s cause, and Donald Trump ...

Letters: Silence about the history of slavery in this country feeds ignorance ... While it is true that Washington did free his slaves, Hafera fails to mention that he did so in his will, which, ...

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Reparations won’t solve slavery’s legacy. Re: “Payment to offset slavery unpopular” (Page A1, Sept. 11 ...

To the editor — A recent letter by Dr. Whitmont was responded to by Richard Boyd. Boyd claimed that Whitmont's statement that the Civil War was fought to end slavery was false. Mr. Boyd then ...

Letter: Make sure slavery is abolished. By Peter Brown, Vancouver Published: July 22, 2023, 6:00am. Share: Much to my disgust I was just informed by my son that the practice of slavery is still ...