The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

When the Civil War began, Douglass hoped the goal of the war would be to end slavery. But as late as August of 1862, Lincoln announced his primary goal was to save the Union "and is not either ...

His mission: to end modern-day slavery. Herzlich, 35, explains, "IJM combats human trafficking and modern-day slavery by basically partnering with governments to rescue victims. They restore the ...

Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

More than 2,800 men participated in the well-organized sexual abuse and exploitation of young Asian women; some rumored to be ...

A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, a “disaster in an otherwise blessed land.” Emma Mordecai, a Virginia Jew, prepared ...

Whose Word Is It Anyway? Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliché of “a legacy of slavery.” But anyone who is being serious, as distinguished from being political ...

Third, it kept the slave states in the Union, which gave free states power that they could—and later would—use to end slavery. If the Framers had tried to abolish slavery in the Constitution ...

Former enslaved Africans, such as Olaudah Equiano also fought for an end to slavery. Equiano was a prominent member of the 'Sons of Africa', a group of 12 black men who campaigned for abolition.

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor shares something in common with other marvels of the world that are, were and never ...