The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

On the assumption that slavery was a state rather than national institution, antislavery advocates at first anticipated that military defeat of the Confederacy would result in its abolition ...

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 ...

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 ...

Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring ...

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

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 ...

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