In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

As more and more pro-life Americans realized they still had to win the battle for hearts and minds in order to restrict and ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

Teachers, students, parents and members of the community took part in the fifth annual Teach Truth Day of Action Saturday at Salem’s Waterworth Memorial Park. About 30 participants stood against ...

Object Details author Harrold, Stanley Notes Elecresource Contents Direct Abolitionist Engagement in Politics, 1688-1807 -- Continuity and Transition, 1807-1830 -- Escalation, 1831-1840 -- The Rise ...

Charles Sumner, a senator from Massachusetts, for example, who was viewed by many as a living martyr to abolitionism after enduring a near-fatal beating at his desk in the Old Senate Chamber in ...

Juneteenth has become a federal holiday in recent years, commemorating the emancipation of the last enslaved people in Texas ...

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dianah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African and European ancestry arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim– one that set her on ...