A social history of black soldiers, it explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery and how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war.

The rest, more than four-fifths of the total, were bondsmen from the slave states who wanted nothing so much on earth as the chance to help destroy slavery for all time.

He favored fragmenting the American republic in order to destroy slavery, and he sought to amalgamate all the American races.

It was this moment that Brown pledged to destroy slavery.

The movement which finally destroyed American slavery was religious in a number of different senses.

In April 1858, Tubman was introduced to the abolitionist John Brown, an insurgent who advocated the use of violence to destroy slavery in the United States.

It honors those who fought, suffered and died to preserve the Union, uphold the Constitution and destroy slavery.

Two significant events in the struggle to destroy slavery were the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

The party took on the mission of saving the Union and destroying slavery during the American Civil War and over Reconstruction.

He destroyed southern slavery with a steampowered cotton picker, and power and wealth followed him.