Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

John Hunn was an abolitionist in the 1800s convicted for federal crimes after he helped enslaved people reach freedom.

Ever since he first met Garrison in 1841, the white abolitionist leader had been Douglass' mentor. But the views of Garrison and Douglass ultimately diverged. Garrison represented the radical end ...

Several years later he returned to the United States. Garnet's role as an abolitionist leader would diminish as the years progressed, although he would continue to remain active in the cause.

Brown, the son of John Brown—one of America’s most prominent abolitionist leaders—was the last surviving member of the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid, a failed slave uprising led by his father that ...

Most of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade organisation were Quakers. John Wesley was a preacher and leader of the Methodist religious movement. An influential preacher ...