A commemorative stone slab and smaller stones following the presumed outline of Brown’s body mark the site on a hilltop ...

Incarceration separated Keeley from her daughter again and again. While incarcerated — on and off, over the course of 14 ...

In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...

Behind the heavy oak door of her two-story brick house, Harriet Bell Hayden kept rifles, kegs of gunpowder and even a secret ...

On this edition of Here and Now, we discuss efforts to preserve Black history in New York City. After a four-year campaign, a 19th century building in Greenwich Village connected to the abolitionist ...

After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they ...

But Lewis was not only one of the first professionally acknowledged women naturalists; she was also an abolitionist and social reformer who worked for the advancement of science as well as human ...

There were also campaigns, boycotts, and protests by abolitionist campaigners outside of parliament. Olaudah Equiano was a writer in 18th Century London. “… the air soon became unfit for ...

A rare book exhibition was thought to display the letters of the first Black voter in Britain at the University of South ...