Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ... died or were killed during the American Revolution. And I hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, or others ...

But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery was legal in each of the thirteen colonies -- flourishing not ...

Stephen Seals portrays James Lafayette at Colonial Williamsburg and said that the new monument will serve as a reflection of ...

When recalling American Revolution heroes, the name of Noel Carrière does not often come to mind. The role he played, however ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

Indeed, the American Revolution was a Lockean Revolution ... To ignore these “self-evident” truths is to open the door to slavery and despotism — and revolution. As the Americans expressed ...

U.S. concerns about the possible "contagion" of the revolution in Saint-Domingue to slaves in North America were outweighed by the political and economic advantages of working with Louverture. North ...

It was an ironic beginning for a building that, over the next 284 years, would serve as a forum for practically every significant debate in American ... to conserve their slave economies.