Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

The National Park Service on Sunday removed abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s photo and quote from its webpage on the Underground Railroad, igniting criticism that the move was yet another attempt by the ...

THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union. By Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died in ...

Matthews’ principles were strongly anti-slavery. He became editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the Cincinnati Herald, following in the footsteps of its former editor, noted abolitionist ...

One of the truly unforgettable heroes of the British empire to whom I was introduced in the dying British colony of Nigeria was Cecil John Rhodes. There were several others but Rhodes stood out ...

NATCHEZ — Watch this grand procession from Rosalie down Canal Street to the Natchez Convention Center, built atop the former Steamboat Hotel where Marquis de Lafayette was the guest of honor in ...

But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent Civil War veteran, abolitionist, Underground Railroad facilitator and pastor.

He also owned two slaves, and his newspaper ran notices on the sale or purchase of slaves. In his later years, he became an abolitionist and considered slavery against the principles of the ...

ACTOR Idris Elba could take on his toughest role yet — as Labour want him to be next London Mayor. The star, 52 — bad boy cop Luther in the BBC hit TV show — is the party’s preferred ...

Ellen Smith Craft famously escaped by disguising herself as a white gentleman traveling with her husband William, captivating abolitionist ... in Boston’s Liberator newspaper.