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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A commemorative stone slab and smaller stones following the presumed outline of Brown’s body mark the site on a hilltop ...

One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. He visited slave trading ports where he boarded slave ships. He collected ...

Among the abolitionist honored by the stamps is Thomas Garrett, a Quaker from Upper Darby. And his descendant, Bob Seeley from Havertown, helped honor the man who was instrumental in the ...