In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

California’s Legislative Black Caucus and the Reparations Task Force continue their fight to scrape away at the last vestiges ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

A historic church at the heart of Britain’s slavery abolition movement is facing a financial crisis after the Government ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

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In a speech lasting two hours (the speech took place on Dec. 3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...