For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...

Robin Blackburn is the author of "The Making of New World Slavery" and "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery." He is a member of the graduate faculty of the New School University, New York. While there ...

A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Division, crisis, and political violence are hardly new in the history of the United ...

Over a century and a half after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, millions remain in bondage—children forced to take part in armed conflict or sold to brothels by their ...

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave (1796) by William Blake. Wikimedia/Public domain. The contemporary movement against ‘modern-day slavery’ makes a grave ...

Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the ...

One of the most outspoken heroes of the abolition movement was a former slave by the name of Jermain Loguen, who escaped from Tennessee in the 1830s and eventually became a preacher in Syracuse, N.Y.

A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ...

This blog is about the healing of your body, mind, and soul—and the healing of our country and our world. It's about the healing of a form of trauma that haunts hundreds of millions of Americans, and ...