A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war ...

From the Richmond Sentinel, Feb. 22. A gentleman now resident of this city, formerly of Kentucky, proposes to put his able-bodied slaves at the disposal of Gen. LEE. He thus gives unmistakable ...

One of the Civil War’s bizarre historical footnotes took place on March 13, 1865, when the Confederate Congress voted to bolster their dwindling forces by arming black slaves. While this idea ...

Senator MAXWELL also spoke against putting negroes into the armies, on the ground that such a step involved the abolition of slavery. Opposed to this view was Mr. JOHNSON, "of Missouri," who was ...

The Union survived, however, and with the end of the war in 1865, long after the Emancipation Proclamation had pronounced slaves in seceded lands free, all African Americans finally emerged from ...

The former slaves convened at their own conventions ... s minutes at the “Colored Conventions Project.” On December 4, 1865, when the Thirty-Ninth Congress first convened in Washington ...