Slavery Abolition

April 4, 1865 Abraham Lincoln walked into the burning Confederate capital, uphill from the river, passing abandoned slave markets on his right, holding his son Tad’s hand on the boy’s 12th birthday. After four years of civil war, the president of the United States was in Richmond. Now he knew…

In his Gettysburg Address at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln pointed out that the United States was “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” “Now,” he continued, “we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or…

It’s time to reinvent Frederick Douglass as the equal of Abraham Lincoln in the 19th-century fight to end slavery in the U.S., according to the historian behind Apple TV’s new “Lincoln’s Dilemma” series. David S. Reynolds said the streaming series that premieres Friday reflects a Black Lives Matter-inspired effort among…

One of the nation's largest Native American tribes is searching for family stories connected to formerly enslaved Black people once owned by tribal members. The big picture: Cherokee Nation principal chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told Axios it was wrong for Cherokees to once participate in slavery, and the tribe wants to…

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." Abraham Lincoln Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata is a fierce critic of the Buhari/APC administration. He is a strong voice to be reckoned with, on and off the social media. He also commands deep respect among the young…

For guidance, turn to the abolitionists who led the campaign against slavery in America...Read More

When retiring Justice Stephen Breyer invoked Abraham Lincoln’s observation that the nation’s “popular government has often been called an experiment,” it could hardly have been lost on him that the nation was recently, and for the first time since the Civil War, subject to an attempt to void a democratically…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Joseph H. Rainey, born into slavery in 1832, was honored Thursday for being the first Black member of the House by formally having a room in the Capitol named after him. Top lawmakers and a descendant turned the ceremony into something more than that. No. 3…

Immigration reduction has always been the key to progress for the descendants of American slavery. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n 1853, Frederick Douglass wrote of cities in the North: Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color are…

Migrant workers from Mexico and Nicaragua work on a farm on September 9, 2013. (Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images) The Biden administration, including Vice President Kamala Harris, is being pressured to investigate a popular guest worker visa program that contributed to horrifying conditions at farms in Georgia, where workers were…