For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave (1796) by William Blake. Wikimedia/Public domain. The contemporary movement against ‘modern-day slavery’ makes a grave ...

Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the ...

Robin Blackburn is the author of "The Making of New World Slavery" and "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery." He is a member of the graduate faculty of the New School University, New York. While there ...

A secret society called the Anti-Man-Hunting League was organized by Boston abolitionists in 1854 to prevent black people in the “free state” of Massachusetts from being kidnapped and enslaved. Its ...

One of the most outspoken heroes of the abolition movement was a former slave by the name of Jermain Loguen, who escaped from Tennessee in the 1830s and eventually became a preacher in Syracuse, N.Y.

L'Emancipation à La Réunion by Alphonse Garreau. Wikimedia Commons. Une version étendue de l'article a aussi été publiée en français. Slavery and related forms of servitude have been illegal for some ...

Hudson, Ohio, served as the backdrop for activist John Brown’s anti-slavery mission, and the campus of Western Reserve College was a hub for abolitionist activity. Notably, the Cleveland Anti-Slavery ...