After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

After arriving in New Orleans — and witnessing slavery firsthand — he walked back home.

After implementing the Emancipation Proclamation, which did not apply to every state, Lincoln increased pressure on Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the entire nation with a constitutional amendment.

After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.

After landing in Nicaragua, he proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua and re-instated slavery.

After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.

After the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese overseas territories in the 1830s, the slave trade definitely went into serious decline.

After one of his reelection victories, he said that he must " bring about a day prophesied when slavery and war shall be banished from the face of the earth.

After the British crown abolished slavery in 1834, the Jamaicans began working toward independence.

After Lincoln's landslide re-election in early November 1864 on a platform advocating passage of the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to abolish slavery altogether, Booth devoted increasing energy and money to his kidnap plot.

After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of slavery.

After a comprehensive statement of the varied reasons slavery goes against “ the laws of God, man, and nature ,” the Conference answered in the affirmative to the question, “ do we pass our disapprobation on all our friends who keep slaves and advise their freedom ?” This position was put into action in 1783.

After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in America, racial discrimination became regulated by the so-called Jim Crow laws, which mandated strict segregation of the races.

After the British prohibited slavery in 1835, the influx of African workers did not end because British warships captured Arab slavers and forced the liberated slaves to work on plantations as " apprentices " without pay.

" After his landmark lectures were published in 1866, the term began to appear in numerous sermons and lectures relating to slavery and the war in Mexico.

: After century on century in slavery,

After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's Terebinth slave-market.

After the American Revolutionary War established the United States, northern states, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, passed legislation during the next two decades to abolish slavery, sometimes by gradual emancipation.

After 1800, Yankees ( along with some Quakers and others ) spearheaded most reform movements, including those for abolition of slavery, temperance in use of alcohol, increase in women's political rights, and improvement in women's education.

After the Mexican-American War, the issue of slavery in the new territories led to the Compromise of 1850.

After the war ended, with the North victorious, the fear among Radicals was that President Johnson too quickly assumed that slavery and Confederate nationalism were dead and that the southern states could return.

After the beginning of the earnest agitation of the Northern abolitionists against the institution of slavery about 1831, petitions of various kinds poured into the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate praying for the abolition or the restriction of that institution.

After 1820, a series of compromises postponed a showdown on the issue of slavery, but in the late 1850s, the new Republican power took political control of the North and promised to stop the expansion of slavery, which implied its eventual death.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

After his passage, the street was empty again.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

After that, violence was exultantly easy.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

After trimming off the excess on the frames and transom which was used to fasten them to the jig at a working height, the top of the side planking is installed.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

After a while, we became aware that the money was disappearing as fast as we replenished it.

After dialysis the sample was centrifuged and the supernatant placed on a Af cm column of EEAE-cellulose equilibrated with starting buffer.

After blotting out most of the saline around the sections, a drop of Af was layered over each of the sections, allowed to react for 30 minutes, and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30 minutes.