Brewster author, Michael Pregot's latest book "Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod" is making the rounds and sparking discussion through book talks.

In 1826, a young Black mariner by the name of Gilbert Horton strode ashore in Norfolk, Virginia, clad in “a tarpulin hat, linen shirt, blue cloth jacket and trowsers (sic).” Horton gave ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

In an interview, the American academic explains how a certain individualist vision of freedom, understood as the ability to ...

Fort Greene, Brooklyn, one of New York City's oldest neighborhoods, blends its storied past with a vibrant present to foster ...

The connection between Peterboro and Chenango County will be discussed Saturday, Feb. 8 as part of Black History Month celebrations.

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

A local woman has brought her passion for the Erie Canal to life in a book inspired by her father, her love of New York state ...

The Living & Aging Wisely School program is back for 2025 — inviting older adults to gain vital knowledge and tools to navigate their health and well-being in a safe and effective way. The first ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

Snyder, 190-206. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. “Families, Manumission, and Freed People in Urban Minas Gerais in the Era of Atlantic Abolitionism.” (Co-authored with Douglas C. Libby) ...