A significant portion of the northern economy rested on slave grown cotton. This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates ...

His positions grew more radical as time passed. He called for Northern secession from the slaveholding South, urged abolitionists to refuse to vote or participate in government in any way ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. A network of local abolition groups was established across Britain. These groups campaigned through ...

Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery, said "truth is of no colour" A proposal to erect a statue dedicated to US abolitionist and activist Frederick Douglass has been passed by Belfast ...