In the 18th and 19th centuries, as the abolitionist movement caught steam, many women in the United States began to draw parallels...

Around the time Quock Walker took the stand in Judge William Cushing’s court, anti-slavery gears started to accelerate. In the years...

While Slavery is often labeled as an issue of the regional divide, it existed in the North for hundreds of years before federal...

Years before judicial review ended slavery in Massachusetts, groups of slaves, freedmen, and abolitionists, came together in different...

Anthony Burns’ story takes place in 1854, seventy years after Quock Walker’s suit for freedom, in the age of mounting sectional tensions...

Brom and Bett V. Ashley, more commonly known as the Elizabeth Freeman case, challenged the very legitimacy of slavery less than one year...