On an April afternoon in Lawrence, Kansas, where abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed over a century and a half ...

The 'guilty but mentally ill' verdict confuses and misleads jurors about the fate of the defendant. Kentucky needs to abolish ...

Available in print and for free online, this book features five essays by scholars of law and politics, all considering the ...

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

There's a certain version of history most of us were taught in school — the kind that feels neatly packaged, slightly ...

Rome, April 25, (dpa/GNA) – Pope Leo XIV, called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty on Saturday, a day after the US administration mulled expanding the penalty.“The dignity of the person ...

After a decade of research, the slavery expert has published a book documenting how thousands of ‘liberated’ Africans fell ...

Actor Blair Underwood joins a Massachusetts storytelling project that reframes Revolutionary history through a fuller lens.

Smedley Butler’s classic texts with new commentary by Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) from the age of 16 to the age of ...

Step into the shoes of a Freedom Seeker at ‘VIGILANCE,' a new immersive theater piece by Jae Gayle debuting Saturday at the ...

The story of Dinah, a woman enslaved at Stenton in 1776, brings up more questions than answers — and that is as it should be ...

Ravi Jaiswal, MA Governance, Development and Public Policy alum, analyses the role of participatory theatre in promoting the rights of migrant domestic workers in the UK, highlighting its ...