Slave Compensation Act of 1837: How Britain Paid Millions to Slave Owners After Abolition While Freed Slaves Got Nothing - TalkAfricana

How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship - History Unplugged

As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America via the Underground Railroad. Yet many escapes took place not by land but by sea. William Grimes escaped slavery in 1815 by stowing away in a cotton bale on a ship from Savannah to New York, enduring days without food or water before settling in Connecticut. Frederick Do…

Slave Compensation Act of 1837: How Britain Paid Millions to Slave Owners After Abolition While Freed Slaves Got Nothing - TalkAfricana

In 1834, when the British Empire officially abolished slavery, the government organized what would become one of the largest transfers of wealth to private individuals in history. Yet, none of this money went to the people who had endured generations of forced labour and cruelty. Instead, it was handed out to thousands of slave owners […] TalkAfricana