What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the popular name of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on the...
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
Six generals died in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. Perhaps the least likely military leader in the group was Isaac Peace...
On November 7, 1837, Henry West – a shop owner in Alton, Ill. – needed a peaceful solution to an armed standoff...
The little people’s petition was signed by 195 children in Concord, Mass., asking President Lincoln to free all slave children. When Lincoln...