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 ...

"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. They prevent the emigration of whites, who really enrich and strengthen a country.

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 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR May 13, 2025 1 min to read ...

Run, don’t walk your hands over to your computer’s keyboard and book tickets now, before they sell out, for my dear friend Michal Dawson Connor’s inspiring show, “The Slave Letters.” The ...

Maj-Gen T J, Letter on Slavery in KentuckyMaj.-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 ...

Face it; American slavery was brutal with no upside. We need to respect the intelligence of our schoolchildren with the unvarnished truth, and allow those who suffered enslavement to rest in peace ...

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 ...

This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save ...

The writer of a Jan. 2 letter to the editor said secession was the cause of the Civil War. That’s like saying “treason was the cause of treason.” In fact, Southern states seceded from the ...