Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...

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On Monday, faith leaders including Bishop William Barber led demonstrations in 11 southern states to protest President ...

Proposed slavery and segregation exhibit incites legal fight over Confederate legacy and whitewashed nostalgia.

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Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...

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A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

Elon Musk's plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans ...