Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...

Dinah Nevil came to the city in 1773 and insisted on freedom for herself and her children. And jump started the nation's first white abolition society.

Family abolitionism offers a valuable critique of some of the political valorization of the nuclear family and the burdens of care placed upon it and rightly calls for a more collective and liberatory ...