Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics
Of humble New England origins, successful as a frontier lawyer, but disastrously unsuccessful as a land speculator, Joshua Reed Giddings entered Congress from…
Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War
Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the most powerful, most deeply rooted, and best organized private interest group within the United…
Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero
Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did…
William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation
Fiery, opinionated, and controversial, William Lloyd Garrison has always been identified with abolitionism in early nineteenth-century America. In his incisive biography of the…
Hidden in a Book: $40 Trillion – Keep the Mule
American slavery and the legal right to restitution. Those who argue for reparations believe in equitable relief falsely believing chattel slavery was legal.…
Smoke, Mirrors, and Chains: America’s First Continuing Criminal Enterprise
Blacks born in colonial America were Englishmen with an inalienable right to liberty under Britain’s rule of law and those who purported to…
King’s Native Sons: Lies, Legacies, Lessons
Chattel slavery in colonial America was an attack upon dynastic rule. The shot heard around the world was not a musket shot fired…
Tying the Knot
Uncover the criminal origins of slavery in the U.S. at the Ida B. Wells Center, exploring how corrupt colonial practices defied British law.
How it Impacts
Explore how the Declaratory Act of 1766 nullified colonial slave laws, redefining the legal and historical understanding of slavery in the U.S.
Why Everything Changed
Learn how slavery in the U.S. was rooted in corrupt colonial practices, challenging its legality under British law and reshaping historical narratives.