Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

I am convinced that the end of abortion as a business is in sight when our movement is not only joined by but led by the ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

More than 100 descendants of people who were enslaved during the colonial era have applied to change their names since a ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

The contributions and resilience of enslaved people were commemorated, this afternoon, during a wreath-laying ceremony held at the Bassin des Esclaves and the Marché aux Esclaves in Pamplemousses.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

He was kidnapped into slavery as a boy and later managed to purchase his freedom. After publishing his autobiography in 1789, he toured Britain to sell it and promote abolition and Black rights ...