African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

There can be much debate on whether a site was part of the Underground Railroad. Hudson Valley has its share of sites, ...

The John Sands House, still a private residence, is named after the Quaker abolitionist who bought the house from Hawley Green and his wife Harriet, free Black people, who sheltered freedom ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday ...

Image from Wikimedia Commons Local Pittsburgh happenings in arts, performance, culture, etc. Feb. 10–Feb. 16 The Return of Benjamin Lay  Jan. 31–Feb. 23, Quantum Theater, Braddock Carnegie ...

“Quakers believe that those with varied life ... for the protection of Native Americans’ rights, were early abolitionists and had many leaders involved in the women’s suffrage movement ...

The Return of Benjamin Lay depicts the life and times of a Quaker dwarf from Pennsylvania who, in the 18th century, opposed ...