By the 1850s, at a time when slaves throughout the United States ‘must bear all things and resist nothing’, Jacobs managed to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The results from the California's 10 propositions continue to come in and recently, Proposition 6 failed. It was meant to ban forced prison labor and advocates behind the measure ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

Laura F. Keyes, a professional portrayer of historic women, gave a program on Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sunday, Nov. 3, in the ...

Abolish Slavery National Network co-founder Jamilia Land, who advocated for the initiative targeting forced prison labor, said the measure and similar ones in other states are about “dismantling the ...

President-elect Trump could ax a federal program that protects undocumented immigrants who are witnesses in workplace ...

An Illinois task force is working to bring greater recognition to the state’s role in the Underground Railroad, identifying ...

The descendants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina condemned the mass texts sent to Black Americans ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

A task force of lawmakers and historians is recommending that Illinois create a full-time commission to commemorate the ...

Abolishing it wouldn’t undermine state sovereignty in the least.