Her pedigree among the slaveholding aristocracy was a weapon that few other abolitionists could claim, and it lent credibility to her anti-slavery views and to the movement as a whole. In 1836 ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

One man in particular, Frederick Douglass, had a major impact on the national abolition movement. Play “Frederick Douglass” for the class. When the video has finished, ask students to identify ...

Rather than providing clarity and helping allies work toward shared goals, buzzwords such as “abolitionism” tend to promote ...

HSP presents Gallery Talk with 1838 Black Metropolis ...

Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring ...

and there was a strong abolition movement here,” Kidd said. The show took the stage on Friday night with another showing on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The final show runs on ...

How committed is local historian and author Linda Willard to the notion of Quakers opposing slavery? “I’m so opposed to the idea that a person can be owned that I refused to allow my father to ‘give ...

After escaping from slavery, he became a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement. When Carter G. Woodson, an American historian, first came up with Negro History Week, he chose the second ...