James Parks (March 19, 1843 – August 21, 1929) was a freed slave who is prominently buried in Arlington National Cemetery and is the only person buried...

James or Jim Parks may refer to: James Parks (freed slave) (1843–1929), freed slave prominently buried in Arlington National Cemetery James Parks (actor)...

by James K. Polk at his farm in Maury County, Tennessee In 1875, the St. Louis Globe published this interview with Moses Key, a former slave of James Monroe...

The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...

owned at least 122 slaves. James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. James Blair (c. 1788–1841)...

"[full citation needed] In 1787, the British helped 400 freed slaves, primarily African Americans freed during the American Revolutionary War who had been...

crime to own a slave until 2007. Although many slaves have escaped or have been freed since 2007, as of 2012[update], only one slave owner had been sentenced...

Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New...

individuals. Numerous slaveholders who freed their slaves cited revolutionary ideals in their documents; others freed slaves as a promised reward for service...

The Natchez, Mississippi slave market was a slave market in Natchez, Mississippi in the United States. Slaves were originally sold throughout the area...

foreign trade of slaves was banned in 1850. Then, in 1871, the sons of the slaves were freed. In 1885, slaves aged over 60 years were freed. The Paraguayan...

status of blacks before the passage of the slave laws--the issue is not whether some were free or some were slave. Almost everyone acknowledges the existence...

Anglo-Saxon England who was freed by his mistress Æthelgifu's will. Ecceard the Smith, a slave in Anglo-Saxon England freed by Geatflæd "for the love of...

there in 1836. Madison was a slave owner; he freed one slave in 1783 to prevent a slave rebellion at Montpelier, but did not free any in his will. Among historians...

for free African Americans. The society helped send several thousand freed slaves to the new colony of Liberia in Africa from 1820 to 1840. Slave owners...

of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. Northup was...

France. Slavery in Zanzibar was abolished in 1909, when slave concubines were freed, and the open slave market in Morocco was closed in 1922. Slavery in the...

of African slaves freed by setting foot on French soil were recorded such as the example of a Norman slave merchant who tried to sell slaves in Bordeaux...

were called contrabands, and in some cases thousands-strong columns of freed slaves followed U.S. Army troop movements through the South. Eventually contraband...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...

In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...

This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and...

medieval world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...

who in 1809 had sold Andrew Jackson's slave woman prone to "fits" to a "free French" woman of color). John, James, and Washington were "Irish immigrants...

whites that competed for work with freed blacks. Tobacco was the key export of the colony in the seventeenth century. Slave breeding and trading gradually...

in February 1865, the people Ryan's Mart still enslaved were freed. In 1878, the Old Slave Mart was converted into a tenement dwelling, with a second floor...

stringent Fugitive Slave Law; ostensibly, the compromise addressed regional problems by compelling officials of free states to assist slave catchers, granting...

that the enslaved men who had fought would not be freed after all. According to Robinson in a slave narrative he dictated shortly before the American...

Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during...

law specifically freed only slaves who had been issued firearms (i.e. whose owners had used them as substitutes for army service). James had served as a...