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 ...

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

The webinar was one of three which, along with a traveling exhibit and a live guide, has been paid for by a grant from ...

Emma Fenstermaker is a freelance researcher with New America Chicago, specializing in community recruitment and engagement, analysis, and writing. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Creative Writing ...

Books That Shaped the Abolitionist Movement ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...