In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...
Linda Hirshman is a historian of social movements. Her previous books document the struggle for gay rights, against sexual harassment, and for labor reform. But her most recent book, “The Color of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen's views on slavery remain unclear. Jim Dyson/Getty Images More than two centuries ...
Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times. 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 ...
A Delaware family's contributions to the abolitionist movement in the United States and Canada in the 1800s may be little known today, but a historical marker unveiled during Black History Month will ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By William G. Thomas III THE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a ...
Portraits of Charlotte L. Forten Grimke, Lucretia Mott, and Lydia Maria Child. It is an egregious fact that forced labor has long been a practice in human history. Evidence of it has been seen in ...
FITCHBURG — One local artist is giving back to the greater community in a profound way through a vivid and powerful mural creation at Abolitionist Park. The work of Digi Chivetta is prominently on ...
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Slavery in an Age of Emancipation
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...
In the fight against modern-day slavery, four distinct anti-slavery approaches have emerged: faith-based, secular abolitionist, feminist, and human rights. While some have argued for one approach over ...
Charles Osborn, whom William Lloyd Garrison called “the father of all U.S. abolitionists,” has a new marker on his grave at Quakerdom Cemetery in Jackson Township. He now has his old gravestone, too, ...
You’ve heard of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. But what about Thomas James, a former slave who founded churches in Rochester and Syracuse? Or William Wells Brown who escaped slavery, operated ...
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