You can now add at least one more well-deserved honor for Harriet Tubman: Brigadier General in the Maryland National Guard.

Several years later he returned to the United States. Garnet's role as an abolitionist leader would diminish as the years progressed, although he would continue to remain active in the cause.

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement ... “She knew that in order to do the ...

This influenced many Christian abolitionists including the former ... From the mid-18th century a new set of church leaders challenged the complacency of previous generations.

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

Private-school leaders are warning that attempts to abolish ... Mrs Boulton said that adding such taxes would be "abolition by the back door". "It would ensure that many independent schools ...

Tubman, who escaped slavery in 1849, was a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, helping guide 150 ...

A life-sized statue of abolitionist Harriett Tubman stands in the Old House Chamber in the State House in Annapolis. Photo by Bryan P. Sears. A once-enslaved Maryland woman who became a leader in the ...

Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, one of the most important leaders of the African-American civil rights movement in the 19th century, lectured at various sites, such as at a music hall in ...

A life-sized statue of abolitionist Harriett Tubman stands in the Old House Chamber in the State House in Annapolis. Photo by Bryan P. Sears. A once-enslaved Maryland woman who became a leader in ...