Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.
Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass under an amendment by Utah Rep. Burgess Owens and other Republicans.
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (encore)Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...
Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...
New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...
On Wednesday 2nd April, two men stood on campus with extremist anti-abortion signs, alongside aggressively pushing their ...
American Libraries spoke with Bob the Drag Queen about his debut novel, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert (Gallery Books).
The monument dedicated to noted abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy recently received a facelift thanks to efforts by the Illinois ...
In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...
Construction wrapping up at Thaddeus Stevens-Lydia Hamilton Smith museum in Lancaster ahead of tours
The interior of a structure that will house a downtown Lancaster museum celebrating the legacies of an abolitionist ...
Friday marks the 233rd anniversary of the birth of Thaddeus Stevens, Lancaster’s Civil War-era abolitionist congressman.
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