On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved ...

Indeed, although slavery was legally abolished in December 1865 with ratification of the 13th Amendment, it continued in one form or another past that date, including in states that never seceded ...

Martha S. Jones honored Jonathan Ocko's legacy with a lecture on legal history, exploring her family's defiance of racial ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

Georgia's Fort Benning, formerly Fort Moore, is holding a ceremony to rename the military base. Here are bios of the people behind the names - including the two Bennings.

The abolition or slavery, by the constitutional ratification of the States, will strengthen the Union cause in North Carolina and Virginia, the present battle-ground of the rebels. The gambler ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi ... navigated these questions around slavery and abolition in the 1850s and then the Civil ...