Slavery

December 2, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Brown led the attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to spark a slave uprising.

June 23, 2016 By Ed Rampell

A nineteenth-century American classic, re-imagined for the stage as a tale of racial injustice.

June 17, 2016 By Special to People’s World

This still popularly observed African American celebration honors the day when slaves in Texas heard they had been freed.

March 22, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky

Gerald Horne writes that the 1804 Haitian Revolution "was so profound that it may require an entire school of historians to take its true measure."

December 14, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Two of the four Foner brothers who were leaders in the American labor movement were born on December 14 in 1910.