northern slavery

What today's activists can learn from their victories.

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

Paid less than their white counterparts, Black men in the United States Colored Troops fought for the Union and the future of their families.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

Benjamin Prine's descendants didn’t know about their family ties – or their connection to his enslaver.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

Although he did not openly endorse every one of the many precepts of the antislavery Constitution, Lincoln framed his positions entirely within its parameters.

How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.

Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.