Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

A historic church at the heart of Britain’s slavery abolition movement is facing a financial crisis after the Government ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Some of Cupitt’s colleagues thought he had stretched the limits of theological integrity and should have resigned from the priesthood ...

“The ‘Free as One’ exhibit is proof of how and what really occurred,” says Justina Barrett from HSP’s Chief Learning and ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

This is neither true nor just. “Unlike the mass movement in support of abolition of slavery, the call for reparations today is a top-down elite project.” And Charles Wide KC, who also ...