About a month ago, a New York writer revealed that what he believes to be the first reference to the “underground railroad” appeared in an abolitionist newspaper published in Albany, New York, in 1842 ...

The Underground Railroad, which facilitated the escape of freedom-seeking fugitives before the Civil War, was long treated as little more than a folkloric saga of secret tunnels, terrified “runaways” ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a ...

Mr. Shane, a reporter for The New York Times from 2004 to 2019, is the author of the forthcoming book “Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland.” Thomas Smallwood ...

A wall with surnames inscribed in it. The National Monument to Freedom at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The park depicts the brutality of American slavery and the lives ...

The National Monument to Freedom serves as the focus of a private dedication for the Equal Justice Initiative on June 19, 2024. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector) People who visit the Freedom Monument ...

This is an opinion cartoon. “Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of ...