The Maryland National Guard has declined to participate in a parade to honor the life and legacy of abolitionist and Maryland ...

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

In a recent New York Times op ed, legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman offer a partial defense of President Trump's executive order denying ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak.” ...

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery but refused to let the institution define her. Ferociously independent, Jacobs stood ...

A historic church at the heart of Britain’s slavery abolition movement is facing a financial crisis after the Government ...

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...