John Hunn was an abolitionist in the 1800s convicted for federal crimes after he helped enslaved people reach freedom.

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

Buckson said a resolution seeking a posthumous pardon was presented to former President Joe Biden, but he did not take action ...

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

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 ...

In such a world, climate disasters like the Los Angeles fires are an inevitable part of our lives. We must suffer, see our homes burn, and our air and water turn toxic, to ensure profits for the oil ...

This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates the conflict between Northern merchants and abolitionists. It is an excerpt ...

A Delaware Republican Senator has sent a letter to President Trump asking him to posthumously pardon an Underground Railroad hero and abolitionist from the First State. Sen. Eric Buckson, R-Dover, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

But Lewis was not only one of the first professionally acknowledged women naturalists; she was also an abolitionist and social reformer who worked for the advancement of science as well as human ...