The abolitionist movement reshaped history—and this quick breakdown shows how. From its roots in moral and humanitarian activism to landmark victories like the end of the transatlantic slave trade and ...

Members of Chicago’s first Black church rose to help enslaved people achieve their freedom because they knew theirs hung in the balance.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Funding from a group founded by George Soros has supported the slavery reparations campaign against Britain, The Telegraph can reveal. The Open Society Foundations (OSF), established by Hungarian ...

Some movies cut so close to home that they make it impossible to have an objective response. When I was watching Tatyana Tenenbaum’s debut feature documentary Everything You Have Is Yours, the moment ...

As a metal, gold never corrodes. As a possession, the reverse is too often true. It has the power to warp morality, destroy decency and tarnish humanity. This duality – entrancing beauty alongside ...

John Steuart Curry's "Tragic Prelude." In October 1859, a small town at the junction of two rivers became the focal point of one of the most dramatic and consequential events in American history. John ...

The OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE concerned a former slave, John Price, who had escaped from his owner, John G. Bacon. He fled to Oberlin, OH, a center of ABOLITIONISM prior to the CIVIL WAR and a depot ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

Things came to a head in the early 1840s when the case became a family battle over Julia’s citizenship. In New York, as in ...

Founders & Guardians is a series The Meadville Tribune is publishing as America gets ready to celebate the 250th anniversary ...

The 19th-century poet is the subject of a new film by the Ewers Brothers, Ken Burns and Don Henley that urges us to travel ...