In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of ...

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 ...

How people in power used their influence against the abolition movement. Henry Dundas was Secretary of State for Britain and the Colonies as well as Lord of the Admiralty. He used his influence ...

This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates the conflict between Northern merchants and abolitionists. It is an excerpt ...

Born in Flintshire in 1791, Reverend Robert Everett emigrated to the US from Denbighshire in 1823, and became a leader of the Welsh-speaking abolitionist movement A Welshman has been recognised ...

By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. 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 ...