In the decades before the Civil War effectively ended the institution of slavery in the United States, many people risked their lives to rescue Southern African

In the decades before the Civil War effectively ended the institution of slavery in the United States, many people risked their lives to rescue Southern African

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has i

America's greatest shame has been its enslavement of millions of African Americans prior to their emancipation at the end of the Civil War in 1865. The experien