“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 ...

Siddharth Kara's new book corrects the historical record, stating the slave ship was named the "Zorg," not the "Zong." The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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

In the early 1830s, Asenath Nicholson’s boardinghouse in lower Manhattan was a favorite gathering spot for reformers of all ...

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 ...