A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they ...

Harriet Bell Hayden is believed to have helped hundreds of people fleeing slavery from her Beacon Hill residence ...

In the half century leading up to the Civil War, white and black activists, women and men worked together under the abolitionist umbrella, though not always in harmony. Abolitionists put forward a ...

This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition ...

When he was captured, sparking massive outcry from Boston’s abolitionist community, Minkins had been working as a waiter at a Boston hotel. Before Minkins could be returned to his former owner in ...

Ellen Craft used her light skin to pose as a white man ... their daring escape A black married couple who escaped slavery in the US and fled to England to campaign for abolition have been honoured ...