The Great Abolitionist” by Stephen Puleo is a richly sourced, informative and eminently readable biography of 19th century ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

The modified National Park Service site now showcases stamps of Tubman and civil rights leaders while removing explicit ...

The restoration of Harriet Tubman’s contributions comes in response to outrage over the removal of info on the abolitionist’s ...

Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies Carlos Martinez is a medical anthropologist, whose work often ...

But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent Civil War veteran, abolitionist, Underground Railroad facilitator and pastor.

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

The decline and eventual abolition of slavery has been portrayed as the result of tireless activism and moral persuasion by early Quaker advocates like Benjamin Lay who considered slavery one of the ...

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who has ties to S.C., restored to National Park Service webpage for Underground Railroad after ...

In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for decades that sent African Americans into slavery. Riker used his power as a ...