Two previously unknown letters by British politician and Christian abolitionist William Wilberforce have been unearthed in ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

During the slave era of the United States most slaves were illiterate, but some secretly learned how to read and write. Some of these letters have survived and chronicle the daily life of slavery ...

Letters: Silence about the history of slavery in this country feeds ignorance ... While it is true that Washington did free his slaves, Hafera fails to mention that he did so in his will, which, ...

Slavery was the central reason for Southern secession and war in 1861. Yet in 2024, two candidates for president, Nikki Haley, who failed to mention slavery as the war’s cause, and Donald Trump ...

While “The Slave Letters” was born in Germany, a few (and not enough!) places in the United States have had access to it. The first place was the Reizenstein Middle School in Pittsburgh, which ...

Maj.-Gen. T.J. WOOD has written an eloqueunt letter urging the abolition of slavery in Kentucky. He says: Seeing that slavery, in the hands of wicked and designing men, has been used as the all ...

Imagine if we approached people off the streets and told them we would enroll them in college, tuition free, so they might learn valuable skills that could lead to future ...

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Reparations won’t solve slavery’s legacy. Re: “Payment to offset slavery unpopular” (Page A1, Sept. 11 ...

This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks.The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save the ...

To the editor — A recent letter by Dr. Whitmont was responded to by Richard Boyd. Boyd claimed that Whitmont's statement that the Civil War was fought to end slavery was false. Mr. Boyd then ...

In his March 12 letter, “Wide awoke,” David Stahl states that this country “was built on the backs of slave labor.” This is the very type of hyperbole, unsubstantiated by analytics, that ...