The author shows that Garrison and Lundy and other agitators were really the initiators of the movement which later turned into the Republican Party and caused the election of Lincoln to the ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

In 1787, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented the Committee in Parliament. Nine of the original twelve members were Quakers.

Former slaves made a considerable contribution to the abolition movement. Several wrote and published their personal accounts of slavery. One of the best known authors was Olaudah Equiano ...

In many cases, within the Garrisonian movement in particular, the role of the black speaker or the black writer or the black abolitionist was, in some ways, prescribed, as the famous case of ...

By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the ...

His radicalism helped fragment the abolition movement, yet his consistent, unyielding approach to slavery made him one of the most feared — and reviled — abolitionists in America.

Activists calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons have long relied on the powerful testimonies of atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, to grow their movement.

Today’s abolitionist movement calls us to act — let us rise to the challenge. George Cassidy Payne is a writer and educator and lives in Rochester.