Evidence suggests that slavery in Ethiopia was intricately woven into the fabric of ancient empires, religious institutions, ...

There were also campaigns, boycotts, and protests by abolitionist campaigners outside of parliament. Olaudah Equiano was a writer in 18th Century London. “… the air soon became unfit for ...

Biden failed that test. In a statement announcing his clemency decision, the president said, “I am more convinced than ever ...

This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates the conflict between Northern merchants and abolitionists. It is an excerpt ...

After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they ...

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank ...

The engineer and abolitionist had not yet taken the cargo liner Malange, which would take him from Marseille, in France, to Lourenço Marques, in Mozambique, but he was already building dramatic ...

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Civil War spy and Underground Railroad leader Harriett Tubman was posthumously named a brigadier general in ...

Weelaunee Forest Defender Tortuguita's parents have filed a lawsuit seeking accountability for the police killing of their ...