The work of abolitionist campaigners in spreading word of the cruelty of the trade was effective. It became clear that the trade in enslaved people brutalised all who took part in it. There was ...

Many abolitionists initially advocated universal suffrage, for both African Americans and women. When that was made impossible by the insertion of the word male in the 14th and 15th amendments ...

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

NEWTOWN, PA – On February 4, 1864, famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass ... and he was fascinated with the power of the written and spoken word. The audience will witness Wallace transform ...