The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Painter and many other historians assert that the speech, as it’s recited in popular culture today, was incorrectly recorded by white journalist and abolitionist, Frances Dana Gage, which was ...

The “Quaker Comet” Was the Greatest Abolitionist You’ve Never Heard Of Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation’s first radicals to argue for an end to slavery ...

THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union. By Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died in ...

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 ...