Incarceration separated Keeley from her daughter again and again. While incarcerated — on and off, over the course of 14 ...

There is debate among historians over which factors were the most important in bringing about the end of the transatlantic slave trade. These included a number of factors. In the 1790s public ...

Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

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 ...

The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature. Instead of bringing about the end of slavery, it triggered a wave of repression.

After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they ...

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 ...

(The Hill) — Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. In a ceremony at the Harriet Tubman ...

PORTLAND, Maine — As Black History Month approaches, local organizations are spotlighting Maine’s rich and often overlooked Black history. One such effort is a Black History Walking Tour hosted by ...