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Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
Op-Ed: Leave abortion law to the states? Just look at the Fugitive Slave Act to see how that will go
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoState legislation of abortion could easily create similar issues to the complex relationships...
Adam, blacksmith and champion of freedom, dies without honor of last name | Righting the past
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEditor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor...
The Remarkable True Story of the Couple Who Posed as Master and Slave to Escape Bondage
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA portrait of Ellen Craft in the book 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.' Credit - Public Domain...
Directors of 2 Milwaukee Black history museums share important parts of Wisconsin's history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFebruary is Black History Month, and Milwaukee has two institutions dedicated to preserving the...
16 women abolitionists you may not know about
Stacker via AOL· 4 months agoLibrary of Congress // Getty Images; Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images It is an egregious fact that forced labor has long been a practice in...
In the mountains of Northern Mexico, descendants of formerly enslaved people have celebrated...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA woman stands in El Nacimiento de los Negros.Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty...
Orion Griffin: Today in history: D.C. abolishes the slave trade
The Newberry Observer, S.C. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 20—On September 20, 1850, the District of Columbia abolished the slave trade, making it illegal to buy and sell slaves in the nation's capital. Although it outlawed the trade, slavery was ...
Opinion | The States Will Soon Be at Each Other’s Throats Over Abortion
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn May 24, 1854, Anthony Burns, an enslaved man who had escaped from Virginia, was arrested in Boston. According to the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1850, enslaved people who ...
The 113-Year-Old Law Behind Anti-Abortion Activists’ Latest Scheme
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCould driving someone to get an abortion soon be an act punishable by law? It’s not out of the...
