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 ...

On 1 August 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Act, which made the purchase or owning of slaves illegal in parts of the British Empire, took effect in Britain. This did not mean that all of the ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

In 1777, Vermont was the first U.S. territory to ban slavery, and the state of Pennsylvania followed suit in 1780. By 1804, Northern states had voted to abolish slavery within their borders.

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this ...

But first it must be ratified by countries around the world. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United ...

A family has criticised a university report that accuses their ancestors of benefiting from slavery ...

The Bluebonnet curriculum, approved by the Texas State Board of Education, continues to sanitize slavery and be deceptive ...

Nottingham University has come under fire for linking one of its most distinguished benefactors to slavery, despite the ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...