For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Lorain Public Library System hosted the annual Big Read in honor of Toni Morrison’s legacy in the City of Lorain in ...

Over a hundred people gathered at the Esopus Town Hall in the hamlet on Saturday for the sixth Sojourner Truth Life Walk, commemorating the life of the Ulster County-born ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

Convened by AHT Gelditu!, dozens of people took to the streets of Pamplona this Saturday to denounce what they consider the "slavery" caused by the arrival of the High-Speed Train in Navarra. Camera: ...

The Maryland National Guard won't be able to participate in a parade honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass due to the ...

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

She was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to death for killing her slave master, Robert Newsom, six miles south of Fulton.

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the ...