Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain’s stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist ...

Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

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 ...

Her pedigree among the slaveholding aristocracy was a weapon that few other abolitionists could claim, and it lent credibility to her anti-slavery views and to the movement as a whole. In 1836 ...

The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the ...

The Abolitionists," by John F ... that Garrison and Lundy and other agitators were really the initiators of the movement which later turned into the Republican Party and caused the election ...

You can now add at least one more well-deserved honor for Harriet Tubman: Brigadier General in the Maryland National Guard.

Today’s abolitionist movement calls us to act — let us rise to the challenge. George Cassidy Payne is a writer and educator and lives in Rochester.

Jayhawkers: Student Abolitionist Group is a student organization that focuses on abolition, or the dismantling the ...

The Maryland National Guard and Gov. Wes Moore officially recognized Harriet Tubman for her military service to both the U.S.