Before the days of radio, television and the internet, public meetings were the best way to gain publicity for a cause. One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton ...

Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows. The following night, the protestors set fire to ...

A network of local abolition groups was established across Britain. These groups campaigned through public meetings and the publication of pamphlets and petitions. One of the main speakers at ...

settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at an anti-slavery meeting ...

A new collection of essays explores the role of cultivating radical resistance through care in growing the world we want.

A prolific writer, he was a regular columnist in Douglass’s newspaper and was a featured speaker at abolitionist meetings. Unlike some abolitionists, like William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated ...