“The Crooked Path to Abolition” by James Oakes. Norton. 256 pp. $26.95. Review provided by The Washington Post. In his illuminating new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian, offers us a “third ...

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and the institution of slavery were eminently complicated. Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

UConn Draper Chair of American History Manisha Sinha discusses global perspectives on abolition and democracy following a lecture tour celebrating the ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...

In the landscape of American political history John Jay and his descendants may perhaps seem like lesser outcroppings, overshadowed by the cliff-like profiles of more prominent men. But their role in ...

On New Year’s Day 1831, a youthful New England newspaperman with a political bent launched his latest venture in social reform, promising a new era in American abolitionism. In the first issue of the ...

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Why Evolution Is True” and “Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion ...

Scholars discussed the history of scientific racism and abolition through the lens of a new book on slave daguerreotypes in a panel hosted by the Radcliffe Institute Thursday afternoon. Radcliffe ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By William G. Thomas III THE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a ...