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.

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 ...

I vigorously disputed the claim. Although slavery was certainly an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of slavery was not one of the main reasons the 13 Colonies went to war.

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

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

At the time of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, slaves were about 40 percent of the population of the Southern colonies.

Southern colonies wanted slaves to be counted as one person. Northern delegates to the convention, and those opposed to slavery, wanted to count only free persons of each state for the purposes of ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses how the project reframes the role of slavery in American society “in ways that we don't know.” ...

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 ...