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

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

In March 1867, Secretary of State William Seward revived the proposal, finalising an agreement with Russian Minister Edouard de Stoeckl to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. PAY ATTENTION: Follow us on ...

Beckles said that chattel slavery began when European empires first brought African slaves to their New World territories. Even after New World countries abolished slavery and gained their ...

They have virtually annulled the laws and the action of all States which have abolished Slavery, and will have made their institution and its code just as universal, just as permanent, just as ...

The Easter weekend may not be the relaxing break holidaymakers are planning it to be while planning their break on the Canary Islands, as a huge coordinated protest is set to take place on the ...

Fast-forward to the beginning of the 1850s, and slavery had been extinguished ... whose name comes from an 1858 address by William Seward, interprets the Civil War as unavoidable due to the ...

Once barely noticed, the history of the anti-slavery campaign has gathered such momentum that it has now become the central narrative of Our Island Story. The hero of this tale is William Wilberforce, ...

Learn about the fight to end ... slavery and racial inequality and support the work of Equiano. Peckard’s radicalism inspired future leading abolitionists, including Thomas Clarkson and William ...

Secretary Seward had prescience like few politicians ... along with the enhancement of the West’s security posture. William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has called for urgent action from the UK government as the Modern Slavery Act 2015 “no longer holds up to scrutiny” in the face of ...