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 ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

A new documentary called, “Underground: Freedom Stories Along the Borderlands,” looks at the growth of abolitionism in ...

A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas ... They didn't want him to speak about Northern racism, to take on the whole picture of the anti-slavery movement as much as he ...

The abolitionist movement teaches us the power ... and our present reality in Northern Ireland.