This book documents that the Southern colonies joined the Northern colonies to engage in the War of Independence because the Southern colonies feared that Britain would abolish slavery in the ...

The southern colonies feared that Somerset would eventually apply to them and abolish their way of life. In their view, the only way to preserve slavery was to become independent of Britain.

That “dangerous enemy within,” of course, was the half-million enslaved persons living in the Southern colonies primed for a revolution of their own against their feudal overlords.

When the British took control of Florida from Spain in 1763, they brought with them the system of slavery that had thrived in other Southern colonies. Slavery had begun in the New World in Florida ...

The southern colonies were happy to provide raw goods to fuel British manufacturing: cotton, lumber and indigo, along with tobacco, rice and sugar.

Even though he did at last compromise with southern colonies at the convention on some of the provisions protecting slaves in order to keep those colonies in the union, Sherman deserves to be ...

Two incidents were cited by the school's superintendent for holding a mock slave auction and using racial slurs in lessons about southern colonies.

The video continues, “Their priority was getting all 13 colonies to unite as one country. The Southern colonies were dependent on slave labor, and they wouldn’t have joined the union if they ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight to enslavement even as they perpetuated it.

A Massachusetts has been placed on paid leave after school officials learned they held a mock slave auction and then used a racial slur during class.