John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

More than 300 people attended Falmouth's Juneteenth celebration outside Saint Barnabas's Church on Main Street.

Maine is often regarded as having played a major role in the abolitionist movement, in no small part due to Harriet Beecher ...

In New Bedford, Douglass devoured abolitionist writings, finding fire in William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator. A break came in 1841 when he spoke at an anti-slavery gathering in Nantucket.

Ellen Craft's light skin allowed her to pose as her husband's enslaver when the two made their daring escape—in broad daylight—from Georgia to freedom in 1848.

Sumner was a crucial figure in the struggle against slavery, but there were many others: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, to ...

William Lloyd Garrison was only 22 years old when he was recruited to became editor of a newspaper being launched in Bennington. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Garrison moved to Vermont and on Oct. 3 ...

In 1831, slavery was still legal in Connecticut, although the practice was not as widespread as it once had been. In 1848, it became the last of the New England states to abolish slavery.

Turpin also gave his wealth to well-known abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy, and Arthur Tappan, and to abolitionist organizations such as the New York Society for ...

He also criticizes William Lloyd Garrison, a fellow antislavery activist from his time, in the PragerU video: "William refuses all compromise, demands immediate change, and if he doesn't get what ...