A community engagement session took place in Rochester Monday for a proposed historic byway. The “Harriet Tubman Underground ...

A mentoring program for Black girls and young women takes participants on a 14-day tour to learn about Black history, the ...

The property has an in-ground pool suitable for a European villa, a cabana with a full kitchen and a bathroom, there is a ...

From the pavilion, participants took a short walk to Edwin Coppock’s gravesite. Coppock, an abolitionist and participant in John Brown’s anti-slavery raid of 1859, was born in Columbiana County near ...

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Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, minister, educator and orator, in an 1881 ...

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. In a ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad ...

A NNAPOLIS, MD — Civil War spy and Underground Railroad leader Harriett Tubman was posthumously named a brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard on Veterans Day 2024, Nov. 11.

Being an abolitionist, for me, is not about smugly or dismissively proclaiming that people shouldn’t be scared. (I don’t know any abolitionists who dismissively proclaim this, although this is the ...

A renowned abolitionist and author of New York Times Bestseller “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us,” Kaba notes the importance of art in movement work; not merely art for art’s sake but for its ...

Historian Greg Roberts gives a tour of New Richmond's abolitionist sites. Roberts says Lee's story captures the anti-slavery fervor that set New Richmond apart in 19th century Ohio.

Buried in Muskegon's historic Evergreen Cemetery, Captain Jonathan Walker is better known as The Man with the Branded Hand, a title earned for the pain he bore for the cause of freedom.