Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.

What does freedom taste like? As Jews celebrate the weeklong holiday of Passover (Pesach) beginning this Saturday night ...

3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the contraband camp sing “There is a Balm in Gilead” as Charlotte Jenkins ...

The gym gave me a way to rise above the economic and social struggles that came with being a young Russian immigrant.The post The multiple fights to weave my identity ...

The biblical event celebrates the first breath of freedom taken by a people liberated from the iron chains of Egyptian slavery. Yet, even before this first step is taken, the Hebrew slaves are ...

Rabbi Kook writes: “It is difficult to grasp the concept of slavery in its entirety, to understand how to free oneself from its shackles and stand upon the expanse of freedom, to shake off the ...

Roman owners freed their slaves in considerable numbers: some freed them outright, while others allowed them to buy their own freedom. The prospect of possible freedom through manumission ...

Written by John Hope Franklin, a pioneering scholar who taught at both Durham institutions and whose scholarship was key to launching the discipline of African American studies, “From Slavery to ...