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A community engagement session took place in Rochester Monday for a proposed historic byway. The “Harriet Tubman Underground ...
Two previously unknown letters by British politician and Christian abolitionist William Wilberforce have been unearthed in ...
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 ...
Additional SOUL on the MOVE sessions will pop up on July 10 at Abolitionist's Row Park (5 PM) and July 15 at Buttonwood Park near the library (5 PM)-furthering OTC's commitment to making dance and ...
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 ...
The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.
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, ...