Last year protestors disrupted the German festival Oktoberfest in St. Charles County to bring attention to issues of social justice and the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stokely for the ...

Abraham Lincoln's wisdom on knowing when to let go is highlighted through his quote about an elephant. The article explores ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is expected to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery on Saturday, the 160-year anniversary of slavery abolition in the Netherlands. The ...

The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the ...

In a landmark non-binding vote, 123 nations back Ghana-led UN resolution urging apologies, artifact returns, and compensation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British American colonies. Whaling expeditions killed ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

Between bloody fighting in 1862 at Shiloh and Antietam, President Lincoln drafts Emancipation Proclamation. Document declares end of slavery in areas of the Confederacy under Union control. The second ...

On 23rd of August each year, the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is recognised and celebrated. In light of this significant day, we will be acknowledging ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

ON OCT. 5, 1862, Rev. Andrew T. Foss of Manchester lost his beloved 26-year-old son, Pvt. Eugene Kincaid Foss. The younger Foss, a musician in the Fourth Regiment N.H. Volunteer Infantry band, had ...