Incarceration separated Keeley from her daughter again and again. While incarcerated — on and off, over the course of 14 ...
Behind the heavy oak door of her two-story brick house, Harriet Bell Hayden kept rifles, kegs of gunpowder and even a secret ...
In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...
After a four-year campaign, a 19th century building in Greenwich Village connected to the abolitionist movement has been designated as a historical landmark.
A rare book exhibition was thought to display the letters of the first Black voter in Britain at the University of South ...
There were also campaigns, boycotts, and protests by abolitionist campaigners outside of parliament. Olaudah Equiano was a writer in 18th Century London. “… the air soon became unfit for ...
“Mr. Van Fleet was known as a leading abolitionist in this section and was one of three men here to vote for General Birney, the abolition candidate for president in 1844, the other two being ...
Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from ...
The engineer and abolitionist had not yet taken the cargo liner Malange, which would take him from Marseille, in France, to Lourenço Marques, in Mozambique, but he was already building dramatic ...