The History of Slavery, Part 5: The Road to Abolition

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

Slavery died a long death in the Western World. Abolitionists began mobilizing in the 1700s (chief among them Quakers and other Protestant sects) but the movement took decades of activism, bookmaking, and even armed resistance to succeed.\n\nIn the...