abolitionist movement

Featured Excerpt: The Great Abolitionist

Southern Chivalry Argument versus Club's depiction, 1856.

by Stephen Puleo

The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published…
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Featured Excerpt: The Zorg

An 18th-century Liverpool slave ship by William Jackson (c. 1770-c. 1803). Courtesy of Wikipedia. Public domain.

by Siddharth Kara

From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author Siddharth Kara comes the…
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Cape Coast Castle’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Cape Coast Castle in Ghana

by Siddharth Kara

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Siddharth Kara visited the Gold Coast in Africa while doing research…
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