Robin Blackburn is the author of "The Making of New World Slavery" and "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery." He is a member of the graduate faculty of the New School University, New York. While there ...

For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...

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A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Credit - Felix Koch/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images Division, crisis, and political ...

Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

One of the most outspoken heroes of the abolition movement was a former slave by the name of Jermain Loguen, who escaped from Tennessee in the 1830s and eventually became a preacher in Syracuse, N.Y.

NEWBURYPORT — John Greenleaf Whittier Home and Museum Executive Director Erika McAvoy and board President Anne Ferguson will visit “The Morning Show” on Thursday. Host Mary Jacobsen will interview ...

Racial equality in the era of the American Revolution -- Toward a Herrenvolk republic : the meaning of African colonization -- The black struggle for racial equality, 1817-1832 -- The conversion of ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...