According to the Douglass Day website, celebrations honoring his contributions to abolition, women's rights and other causes began around the turn of the 20th century and helped inspire Black ...

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

Chicago’s role as a “hotbed of abolition” before the Civil War will be the subject Wednesday of a Looking for Lincoln Conversations program.