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

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...

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

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted ...

In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

Universal Pictures’ two-part “Wicked” gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after part one brought ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...

Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 focuses on slavery as a moral and political issue that threatened the unity and stability of the United States from the nation's ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco ruled in July that a group of states that sued over the order ...

John Carter Brown Library Director Karin Wulf reflected on her work at a Tuesday book launch event hosted by the Department ...