Local residents gathered in Springfield to read “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Anti-slavery activist Frederick ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...

The 4th of July is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates the Continental Congress’s signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

He noted that while Lincoln practiced law in central Illinois, he delivered anti-slavery speeches in various local communities, drawing a moral “line in the sand” against the practice.

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a ...

Yet while these indomitable Anti-Slavery States, without hesitation, declare for ABRAHAM LINCOLN, men whose Anti-Slaveryism is but the growth of yesterday are clamoring importunately about the ...

This digital rendering shows what would be a proposed mural to commemorate Lincoln’s “Lost Speech” on May 29, 1856. The mural is planned for the wall of the building that houses Rosie’s ...

As a lawyer, he was careful to abide by what the Constitution allowed. In his speech in Cincinnati two years earlier in 1859, he had said, “I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically.

The Interfaith Clergy Council of Gary & Vicinity sponsored the 64th annual service, recalling President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 executive order freeing the slaves residing in the Confederacy at ...