Robin Blackburn is the author of "The Making of New World Slavery" and "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery." He is a member of the graduate faculty of the New School University, New York. While there ...

For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...

A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Division, crisis, and political violence are hardly new in the history of the United ...

Over a century and a half after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, millions remain in bondage—children forced to take part in armed conflict or sold to brothels by their ...

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave (1796) by William Blake. Wikimedia/Public domain. The contemporary movement against ‘modern-day slavery’ makes a grave ...

Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

Race has its unique charge, texture, weight, and speed. The ability to hold and work with these energies isn’t inborn. It needs to be acquired through effort and practice. Most bodies of culture ...

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Freeman provides an intriguing and thoroughly researched account of the great nuclear debates of the 1980s by focusing on mass movements that sought to halt nuclear proliferation—the “nuclear freeze” ...