There's a new study out looking at the wealth of members of Congress whose ancestors owned slaves compared with members of Congress whose ancestors did not own slaves. Will it.
The grave with the cracked stone is the grave of Robert Finley. Born in 1772 in Princeton, New Jersey, Finley grew up pretty well off. His parents had come from.
This is the grave of Pierce Butler. Born in 1744 in Garryhundon, County Carlow, Ireland, Butler grew up in the Protestant elite ruling over Ireland with less than a mild.
On August 28, 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent from King William IV, providing for the gradual emancipation of slavery in the British Empire. Like every other European.
In recent years, discussions of Eli Whitney have noted that despite claims that he "invented" the cotton gin, it was almost certainly the slaves of the Rhode Island revolutionary hero.
On May 23, 1861, three slaves named Shepard Mallory, James Baker, and Frank Townsend fled to Fort Monroe, Virginia, to escape their master. Benjamin Butler, the Massachusetts politician turned officer.
"Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house"
On August 25, 1734, a slave insurrection in St. John was put down with maximum violence, ending nine months of hard-won freedom from slaves and concluding possibly the most important.
