Though Lincoln is remembered as the Great Emancipator, it is easy to forget that he won the presidency on a platform that not only opposed immediate emancipation, but also endorsed white supremacy. In ...
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Painting by M.S. Carpenter, 1863. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images) One of the longest-running debates in US history concerns the role of the Constitution in enabling or ...
Despite being imprisoned and harassed, he helped found an organization to combat slavery in his West African nation of Mauritania. By Adam Nossiter Boubacar Ould Messaoud, a son of enslaved people in ...
Al contrario de lo que podrías pensar, en la mitad de países del mundo la esclavitud humana no es ilegal. Así lo revela un nuevo informe.