Legislators aim to have 'slave state of the North' teach its history

Outlining what legislators Angela McKnight and Verlina Reynolds-Jackson want for NJ with "The Truth, Reconciliation, and ...
Time

Should States Apologize for Slavery?

On Monday Maryland became only the second state after Virginia to officially seek atonement for slavery. The state’s House of Delegates approved a measure, already passed by the senate and not ...
The Real News Network

The 13th Amendment legalizes slavery—and many states have their own version

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of “involuntary servitude” as punishment for a crime. The modern system of mass ...
NBC News

New York will set up a commission to consider reparations for slavery

New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on ...
insider.si.edu

Eighty-eight years : the long death of slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 / Patrick Rael

Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...