The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook.

‘Charles Sumner’ Review: Fighting Slavery on the Senate Floor As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...

Two game-changing books show how central the concept of slavery was to the theologian’s beliefs.

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American slavery.

Verso Books Historian Marcus Rediker has devoted his career to uncovering early histories of resistance against slavery and sharing them in compelling and accessible formats.

This book is sometimes a difficult read, and is probably best consumed in small bites that can be considered with great care to fully appreciate. Start “In Slavery’s Wake,” though, and you ...