On the wintry morning of March 11, 1854, Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper editor Sherman Booth received an urgent telegram from nearby Racine: a fugitive slave had been arrested and taken to the ...

A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social causes, including women's suffrage and world peace.

Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass under an amendment by Utah Rep. Burgess Owens and other Republicans.

The decline and eventual abolition of slavery has been portrayed as the result of tireless activism and moral persuasion by early Quaker advocates like Benjamin Lay who considered slavery one of the ...

The Great Abolitionist” by Stephen Puleo is a richly sourced, informative and eminently readable biography of 19th century ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 in its rafters.