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

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

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 ...

These 18th-century New York leaders understood that sorting people based on their parents' origins would destroy 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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - A bill to abolish abortion in the state gets lots of support after hundreds of abolitionists gathered at the Capitol for the annual Abolition Day rally yesterday. After the ...

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

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 is not lost even after very ...

DC Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. — here’s what to know about the holiday.