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During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hund

This book, the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series, examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US, from the origins of the movement in the eigh

The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring

This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.