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It was an interracial movement from the outset, and slave resistance was crucial to it, a new book argues.
Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.
John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has ...
From the early Quakers and black protest against slavery to the rise of the Anglo-American movement against the slave trade in the 18th century to the golden age of abolitionism in the years before ...
“The Slave’s Cause,’’ Manisha Sinha’s new history of abolitionism, offers a powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery.
Today, Somatic Abolitionism is an individual and communal effort to free our bodies—and our country—from their long enslavement to racialized trauma.
Le Roy History: Exploring Juneteenth, slavery and abolitionism in Genesee County By Lynne Belluscio Le Roy History Jun 14, 2025 ...
A new book will highlight the role of Baltimore as a hotbed of abolitionism and that the city is the true birthplace of freedom road for those who experienced s ...
SPOKANE, Wash. - Dozens of people gathered at Grant Park on Thursday to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States.
Bound and determined: new abolitionism and the campaign against modern slavery The question of mobility was central to struggles against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.