Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

A new book celebrates the life of one of Ohio's earliest and most active conductors along the Underground Railroad: Reverend John Rankin.

The History of Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement 8 minute read A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905.

Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

Black women tirelessly fought on the front lines of nearly every American sociopolitical movement. Extraordinary courage, self-sacrifice, and defiant determination are the common threads binding ...

Groups calling for the abolition of prostitution are not, despite what they might think, following in the best traditions of abolitionism. To merit the title they must strive for far more ...

It was an interracial movement from the outset, and slave resistance was crucial to it, a new book argues.

“The Slave’s Cause,’’ Manisha Sinha’s new history of abolitionism, offers a powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery.

Antiblack racism underwrites the contemporary movement against “modern-day slavery.” The anti-slavery movement is haunted by the specter of racial slavery even while it feeds off it parasitically.

Abolitionism: A hostage to capitalist forces? Modern-day ‘abolitionists’ need to frame labour exploitation so that it fits the narrative of their funding sources.

Economy Feature April 22, 2014 The New Abolitionism Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth.

From abolitionism to OccupyDC The forgotten civil rights leader who started the movement in McPherson Square ...