Brown became a radical abolitionist and believed that any means used to achieve the goal of ending slavery were justified -- including violence. This was a decisive break with the nonviolent ...

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 ...

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The abolitionists used many ways to convince people ... showing the cramped conditions in which 450 enslaved people were stowed below decks. In 1787 Thomas Clarkson went on a five month speaking ...

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 ...

In 1860, they published an account of their escape entitled Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, which helped to make them among the most famous ... abolitionists in Britain, said the couple were ...