Author Scott Spillman joins Morning Joe to discuss his book 'Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the ...

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. _____. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the ...

Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in ...

How committed is local historian and author Linda Willard to the notion of Quakers opposing slavery? “I’m so opposed to the idea that a person can be owned that I refused to allow my father to ‘give ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery ... American novels of all time), challenges to the book ...

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Published in 1947, “From Slavery to Freedom”traces the story of Black Americans, starting from their ancestral roots in Africa through the centuries of enslavement in the Western world, to their place ...