The first group to publicly announce its opposition to slavery was the Society ... In 1787, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented ...

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

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 ...

From its beginnings, slavery was a northern institution ... This is one reason that most northerners were hostile to the abolitionist movement. The attached document illustrates the conflict ...

How people in power used their influence against the abolition movement. Henry Dundas was Secretary of State for Britain and the Colonies as well as Lord of the Admiralty. He used his influence ...

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 ...

Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, one of the most important leaders of the African-American civil rights movement in the 19th ... transatlantic slavery and its legacies in today's society.