Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of th...

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing th...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

This local and regional study fills the gap in documenting Youngstowns role in the Underground Railroad in New York State. It also offers further p...

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A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; ...

Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, ...

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How can the simple choice of a mens suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown...

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan,...

From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast...

Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included Protestant sacred music i...

The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New O...

While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant...

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back...