Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

Maine is often regarded as having played a major role in the abolitionist movement, in no small part due to Harriet Beecher ...

Near the end of the war, President Abraham Lincoln ... she shared platforms with Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and Sojourner Truth. In December 1868, she lost her voice, and her ...

The New England Anti-slavery Society, led by William Lloyd Garrison, was created years later. After President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer ...

The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now ...

Longtime activist Dr. Rev. William Barber was arrested for a second ... second only to probably slavery,” Barber told theGrio. The activist and ordained minister said he and a mass movement ...

Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., is celebrated with various events across South Jersey. Events include festivals featuring music, food and activities. Celebrations occur ...

Is there any notable progress in ending modern slavery? I can’t think of any particular form of slavery that is on the decline today. Sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking ...

If there is one takeaway from WMSURE’s end of year celebration ... and memory making. WMSURE, or William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience, is a Charles Center program whose faculty ...

William Garrison, a Michigan man who was just weeks away from his release after serving 44 years in prison, has died from COVID-19. According to MLive, Garrison, 60, passed away on Monday ...