Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Exodus and its connection to slavery and liberation.

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 ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 2 of this documentary series, Luke Tomes explores the gradual deterioration of the West India ...

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 ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy ...

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

Penn is said to have held at least 12 slaves who built the structures on his estate. The late 1700s and early 1800s saw a worldwide movement to abolish slavery gather momentum, and in 1780 ...

Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 1 of this two-part documentary series, Luke Tomes explores the rebirth of an abolition movement ...