The statue of French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert is pictured in front of the French National Assembly in Paris Wednesday June 10, 2020. Colbert has been a prominent minister under King Louis XIV, ...

The slavery abolition movement followed that pattern, with broad public support yet fierce opposition from those with most to lose. In Britain, slave owners were even compensated with £20 million ...

Bob Strong’s “What ended worldwide slavery?” (July 11) completely ignores the crucial role that people of color played in the abolition movement in Britain and the U.S. Black abolitionists such as ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...

Mexico, Britain, France, and Denmark had all abolished slavery before the United States adopted the 13th Amendment in 1865. Other claims in the post are inaccurate. A recent Facebook post suggested ...

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 ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...

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 ...

William Parker giving backpacks to kids at Miracle Citz Barbershop on Jacksonville's Northside. PARIS – Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an ...