A recent book, entitled The Popes and Slavery written by Fr. Joel S. Panzer (Alba House, 1996), shows that the Popes did condemn racial slavery as early as 1435. Most of the information below is ...

Union cause. But many Republicans in Congress were urging him to take a stand for freedom. In 1862, under his authority as commander in chief, Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

Reformers preached abolition; housewives boycotted slave-grown cane. In Sugar: A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott quotes Quaker leader William Fox, who told a crowd that for every pound of ...

ADVERTISEMENT The Mail reports that 15 Caribbean governments want to discuss slavery payments as part of a “global reset.” The Mail quotes Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who met the ...

For months, state officials have prepared to manage the threat of far-right conspiracists who may try to “stop the steal.” ...

JD Vance compared abortion to slavery in an interview on a Christian podcast with Donald Trump's current national press ...

Noll approvingly quotes Hugh McLeod’s definition of “the traditional ... and more thorough support for abolition than for slavery. Contingent historical circumstances, rather than the intrinsic ...

At least seven states have taken slavery exceptions out of their constitutions. In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in ...

The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately 1885 on, to abolish the internal slave ...

So he was pushing for the abolition of, of slavery as a complete institution ... And you know, one of Ruskin's quotes is kind of one of our unofficial mottos at scad Fine Art is that, and wish ...

has revealed that one of his ancestors owned enslaved people on a Jamaican plantation and received compensation from the British government upon the abolition of slavery. Welby discovered this ...

one of Britain’s first slave traders in the 16th century, with various figures and institutions across society being involved in the practice, right through to its abolition in 1834. While it ...