This year’s bicentennial events include a 400-mile bike ride, history tours and canal concerts along one of North America’s ...

Adam Hochschild, the author of “Bury the Chains,” a readable and lively history of British abolitionism, is well aware of the misuses of anti-slavery themes by London and Washington.

One rural minister out of Ripley, Ohio, the Reverend John Rankin, offered precisely this kind of leadership, leading many of his peers to refer to him as the “father of abolitionism.” ...

Each will also provide some inspiring, practical, and often surprising insights into a different aspect of Somatic Abolitionism. Somatic simply means body-centered. Abolitionism was the widespread ...

Whatever your skin pigmentation, do not pretend that you are unable to rise to the challenge of Somatic Abolitionism. You can either accept this challenge and sometimes make mistakes or fail ...

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Extraordinary courage, self-sacrifice, and defiant determination are the common threads binding together a beautiful tapestry of Black women throughout history, who have tirelessly fought on the ...

Militant, interracial, and nearly forgotten, the Anti-Man-Hunting League epitomizes The Slave’s Cause, a stunning new history of abolitionism by Manisha Sinha, a professor of history and African ...

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So why is abortion abolitionism still on the rise, even when larger anti-abortion groups seem committed to stopping it? The answer has everything to do with the campaign for fetal personhood.