Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The American Revolution' includes voices often forgotten in retellings of the war. Among them are Quaker poet and a young ...

On a recent visit to the rural area where the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor was born enslaved in 1822, ...

Little did Karla Trotman know that she would have such a strong familial connection to a prominent Black Philadelphia ...

Socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promises to respect police officers, but leaders of the “abolitionist” ...

In Thursday’s Latinx Speaker event, Jazdil Poupart-Feliciano delved into their graduate research on supporting incarcerated ...

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.

Elijah Lovejoy's newspaper, the Alton Observer, defied pro-slavery St. Louis ...

The "Abolition Acre" self-guided walking tour was recently established by the nonprofit Beacon Hill Scholars to raise ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had ...