William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on power, leadership and slavery in Exodus 3:14.

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Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

Early on in our work for marriage equality, we had the occasion to reread the autobiography and other selected writings of renowned abolitionist and civil rights champion Frederick Douglass. Through ...