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

No other changes are expected soon to the fleet of John Lewis-class ships, most of which are named after civil rights figures ...

Two previously unknown letters by British politician and Christian abolitionist William Wilberforce have been unearthed in the archives of the University of Chester, shedding light on the later years ...

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 ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

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, ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...