These women with central Pa. ties contributed to suffrage, temperance, abolitionist movements | Column
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.
From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
“When all Pride and Prejudice, all Interests and Designs, being submitted to the Honour of God, and the Discharge of our Duty,” an anonymous clergyman wrote in 1734, “the Holy Scriptures shall again ...
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How did the abolitionist movement begin?
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 ...