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American abolitionist (1800–1859)
Non-slaveholding whites in the antebellum South overwhelmingly supported the slave system because it underpinned the region’s economy, social hierarchy and political power — not just the fortunes of p...
Malcolm X drew a sharp distinction between , portraying liberals as the more insidious obstacle to Black freedom because they disguised domination behind rhetoric of sympathy, while conservatives expr...
Slavery in what became the United States was dismantled by a combination of long-term abolitionist organizing, sectional political crises and a civil war, and finally by constitutional change: the 13t...