Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A fervent abolitionist, in 1838 he offered shelter in his home to a runaway slave, the future intellectual ... Auburn house provided by her friend William Seward, a passionate abolitionist and ...

The entire structure a slave jail was ... and newspapers such as William Lloyd Garrison’s militant Liberator, the first in the United States to call for immediate abolition.

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

This inequity is rooted in the federal government’s efforts to address the adverse legal effects of slavery during the Reconstruction period. In 1871, 42 U.S.C. 1983 was also enacted ...

To deny that the consequences of slavery were also material is to deny French history itself. France belatedly abolished slavery in 1848 in its remaining colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe ...

William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the landscape of 20th-century literature and art, is having his first London show at ...

Despite the legal abolition of slavery in Mauritania twenty years ago, the government is yet to take practical steps ensure its abolition in practice, Amnesty International said today in its report ...