Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

History of Republic Liberia, by a resident of Monrovia. Back in America some abolitionists attacked Liberia for being a place to dump freed slaves, so confusing the issue of emancipation.

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... variety was manumission – the ability of slaves to be freed. Roman owners freed their slaves in considerable numbers ...

Lee Hawkins on honoring the past of slavery by rethinking the present. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins' memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free ...