Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Exodus and its connection to slavery and liberation.

In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by ... and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire.

Neither slavery ... abolition amendment gave Congress power to displace the states in civil rights matters and impose criminal sanctions on their officers in the manner of the Civil Rights Act.

This resulted in major uprisings of enslaved people - including in British colonies - and helped drive forward the 1833 ...

Gov. MEDARY has vetoed the bill abolishing Slavery in the Territory of Kansas. The Legislature has taken the bill up again and will probably pass it over his veto. Advertisement ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution ... legislature to amend the gradual abolition act of 1780. As a result of the 2000 ...