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

And in his 2011 The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, he traced the abolitionist roots of modern human rights discourse. For Blackburn, the histories of enslavement and ...

Michael Karlis is a Staff Writer at the San Antonio Current. He is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., ...

The small exhibit was sent to places like Mobile, Alabama, and the Pompey Museum of Slavery & Emancipation in the Bahamas.

Native Texan and Pulitzer-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed will be the keynote speaker at the Dec. 5-6 event.

Maryland's Emancipation Day comes one year after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the South. Maryland was one of the border states, so it still had slavery. In April of 1864, state ...

When Newt and Rosa began to make large amounts of money, Rosa went to school to learn how to run the business.

Nov. 1 marks the 160th anniversary of Maryland Emancipation Day, remembering the day the Maryland Constitution of 1864 went into effect and officially abolished slavery in the state.

After attending a meeting of a local charitable organization, someone handed me a copy of a will that was probated in Victoria County in 1859.

slavery was officially abolished in Maryland. This was nearly three months before the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment and more than a year before the federal amendment was ratified. The ...