American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

And former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said she learned after records of Britain’s Slave Compensation Commission were put ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th ... century. As Daniel Rasmussen writes in American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave ...

19th Century American Poets: Whittier, Garrison & the Anti-Slavery Movement Posted: March 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 16, 2025 The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

In the 19th century, photographic portraits largely ... In 1855 he oversaw the creation of a “Mammoth Pictorial Tour” of American slavery: a 600-yard-long panoramic canvas featuring painted ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so ... Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above ...