In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

Businessmen in New York, Massachusetts, and other states were involved in shipping slave-grown cotton, in insuring the shipments, in providing capital advances to southern planters, and in running ...