A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

House Bill 121 proposes to remove a punishment clause from a section of the state constitution that allows slavery and ...

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 cents a day. Now, he and others are pushing for an amendment to modernize ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

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Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...