Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain’s stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist ...

I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. They encouraged me to write my ...

I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson. They encouraged me to write my ...

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American abolitionists who raised their voices against racism and ...

Britain, which forcibly transported more than three million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean for over 300 years, abolished slavery in 1833. The United States, where around 388,000 of them ...

a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the ...

After being elected as an MP in 1806, Roscoe backed William Wilberforce's motion to end British involvement in the slave trade. His stance was not without personal cost, as he was accosted by pro ...

As Douglass's Narrative became a bestseller, he was treated by his British hosts not just as ... to nonviolence and his insistence that abolitionists ignore politics. When the Civil War began ...