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 ...

One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade tasked Thomas Clarkson ...

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

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

This year marked the third year the event has been held, and featured a conversation on civil rights and political violence with speaker Kellie Carter Jackson.