Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad, Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For generations, the ...

Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the ...

As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Citizens of Southern slave states clashed with Northern activists who were morally opposed to slavery. Would the new territories ...

Vermonters were up in arms. Congress had just struck a deal with the devil, they believed, by caving in to the Southern slave states. The Vermont Legislature responded aggressively by passing a law to ...

Changing views of slavery in the United States south: the role of Eugene D. Genovese / Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman -- The problem of slavery / David Brion Davis -- The drivers shall ...

For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story is incomplete. What is far less known is that the majority of enslaved ...