Arguably the most significant step toward the abolition of slavery was taken towards the end of the 18th century by Britain and select states of North America. In the 1790s, Britain stood out as ...

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 ...

Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 2 of this documentary ...

Six of these original members were among the largely Quaker group of eighteen Philadelphians that reorganized in February 1784 as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, for the second time, reversed the renaming of a U.S. military base, saying that Fort ...

Once France’s largest slave-trading ports now confronts its past through one of Europe’s most significant memorials.

3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by buying slaves from those owners who were inclined to sell and ...

In its earlier days, the City of Dexter was a place of adamant anti-slavery and a possible part of the Underground Railroad.

The historical records span from 1660 to 1827, and will help historians and New Yorkers locate records of enslaved people and ...

Samuel Anderson, the great-great-grandfather of Mildred Jones, was born into slavery under the Lott family. After the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827, Anderson became a free man. Before ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a neighbor’s pastureland. The Uniontown newspaper carried reports on ...