The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

Dr. William Kerrigan talks about AA Guthrie a prominent abolitionists from Putnam. He and his wife, Sarah, operated Underground Railroad stations, sheltered freedom seekers, and organized anti-slavery ...

“If we want to survive, we’ll have to work for them.” Pedro (not his real name) is a member of a riverside community in Amazonas, talking about criminal enterprises that are turning the forests into ...

Farmington, N.H., native Henry Wilson was elected to public office for the first time in 1840 when he won his bid to represent his adopted hometown of Natick, Mass. in the state’s House of ...

IN SEPTEMBER 1834, the Concord Anti-Slavery Society invited delegates from fellow anti-slavery societies in New Hampshire and all “… persons who believe that ...

Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings" -- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society -- Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 -- Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and ...

Some findings of a research conducted by the University College London, in collaboration with University of Ibadan, titled: African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

CHENNAI, India, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Separated from her parents, Jayashree Ponrajan spent most of her teenage years trapped in a form of bonded labour - forced to live and work in the ...

In the decades before emancipation, some North Country residents advocated for the end of slavery at a time when it wasn’t a ...