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 ...

Before he would make his mark as an abolitionist, he was brought to Jericho ... covering issues such as criminal justice reform, housing, environmental justice, health care and politics.

The MP Sir William Dolben supported parliamentary reform and the abolition of slavery. With the support of other abolitionists, Dolben had put forward a Bill in 1788 to regulate conditions on ...