An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...

Resistance, Revolution, Abolition’ tells the story of the fight to end transatlantic slavery, its aftermath and its ongoing ...

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge now has a reflection room in case its slavery exhibition triggers visitors.

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

New Salem, a tiny central Illinois village where Lincoln spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, has fallen into disrepair.

In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, seeking to use a federal law to override the "sanctuary" policies of free ...

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

The movie Harriet begins with a scene showing a congregation of slaves on a southern plantation in Maryland, USA .

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

Muhammad Syafi’i remembers screaming in pain as hot cooking oil splashed across his stomach and dripped down his legs, his wet clothing sticking to his torched skin as it began to bubble and swell.