General António Guterres warned that systemic racism, economic exclusion and racial violence continue to deny people of ...

The text of the Thirteenth Amendment reflects its historical character as the culmination of a movement that began during the American ... the effect of the abolition of slavery on the federal ...

His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery made him one of the most feared — and reviled — abolitionists in America.

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

Often referred to as the Abolition Society ... By December 1833, when the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Philadelphia, PAS had become a small, embattled group with little public ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

Many Black Americans believed that America was their home and didn ... A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

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 ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 ...

17 If the American government has been mean ... Nothing in the text of the Constitution protects slavery from abolition. Even where the Constitution refers to slavery, it always refers to slaves ...

demanding a total abolition of the slave trade. Image caption, Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa and enslaved in Boston, North America. Wheatley was a talented poet. Unable to find a ...

CU alumni contributors include Sergio Macias (University of Denver), Allison Glover (American Friends Service Committee ... Eliseo Ortiz (Washington State University). Resistance and Abolition in the ...