During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom ... United States, free blacks formed vibrant communities in many urban areas.

Over the next fifteen years, Smith's Latter-day Saints would travel beyond the boundaries of the United States as they searched ... to Utah Territory using this map. "In the 1820s and 1830s ...

In the early decades of the Republic, the United States ... of slavery upon the floor of Congress, under threat of censure. Not only was the enslaved black person denied every freedom but now ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States ... slavery was somewhat less rigid than late colonial slavery, as there were some opportunities to earn freedom, and ...