“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in ...

Commentary: Ending all vestiges of slavery would remain unfinished business for years. That’s because slavery was deeply ...

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Bob Strong’s “What ended worldwide slavery?” (July 11) completely ignores the crucial role that people of color played in the abolition movement in Britain and the U.S. Black abolitionists such as ...

Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

23 August is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a date that marks the beginning of the end for the transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately, this event did ...

Mexico, Britain, France, and Denmark had all abolished slavery before the United States adopted the 13th Amendment in 1865. Other claims in the post are inaccurate. A recent Facebook post suggested ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and the institution of slavery were eminently complicated. Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his ...

The statue of French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert is pictured in front of the French National Assembly in Paris Wednesday June 10, 2020. Colbert has been a prominent minister under King Louis XIV, ...