In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two ...

The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature. Instead of bringing about the end of slavery, it triggered a wave of repression.

When delving further into the study of Transatlantic Slavery it became increasingly evident that Sheffield was a hub for abolitionist culture, generating an abundance of correspondence from people all ...

After migrating to London, he became a key figure in ultraradical circles and was prosecuted by the British government for blasphemous libel. Wedderburn's vision for abolition from below sought to ...

Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring ...

Popkin’s deeply researched and fascinating account of this transformative moment is a major contribution to the existing literature on the history of the Haitian Revolution ... the French Revolution, ...