William Lloyd Garrison

Examining how William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass interpreted the nation's relationship with the Constitution.

Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

Southern pro-slavery states weren't the only states calling for disunion before the Civil War erupted.

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

An unlikely alliance in antebellum America.

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

John Rankin, minister and fierce abolitionist, is a man worth remembering in our moment.

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

Where abolitionists and congressmen—including Lincoln—dined, debated, and became bedfellows.

And justified the most extreme responses.