He insisted that abolitionists renounce their government ... It became an international bestseller, as well as a wildly popular play, exposing thousands of Americans to the cruelties of the ...

Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.

Many people from all walks of life campaigned against slave-dealers, especially when it wasn’t very popular to do so. The abolitionist movement teaches us the power of speaking out and taking ...

The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery ...

The abolitionists understood that unpopular speech – not popular speech – is what needed constitutional protection. And as unpopular as they were in their time, they knew that if they could ...

On Tuesday, Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush and Adriano Espaillat were joined by death penalty abolitionists on Capitol Hill, where they called on Biden to act before Trump takes office ...