A significant portion of the northern economy rested on slave grown cotton. This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates ...

The abolitionist campaigns is the fourth section of The Trade in Enslaved African People (1770-1807) topic of National 5 History. It covers the following content: origins of the abolitionist ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. A network of local abolition groups was established across Britain. These groups campaigned through ...

His positions grew more radical as time passed. He called for Northern secession from the slaveholding South, urged abolitionists to refuse to vote or participate in government in any way ...

Nationally acclaimed Frederick Douglass impersonator to present one-man show about the life of America’s greatest ...

Brown, the son of John Brown—one of America’s most prominent abolitionist leaders—was ... s gravesite sits atop a hill in Altadena at the northern end of El Prieto Road.