Beginning in earnest around 1830, Philadelphia’s vibrant free Black community, led by successful Black industrialists and merchants such as James Forten and Robert Purvis, collaborated with local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1850: The autobiography of abolitionist Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), formerly an enslaved woman and originally Isabella Van ...

Robert Djed Snead, a performing historical re-enactor, lecturer and storyteller, will deliver two re-enactments of a famous Syracuse abolitionist, on Thursday, Feb. 16, at SUNY Cortland. Snead, from ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African-American figures from New England. Long before Frederick Douglass became a famous abolitionist, before his speeches ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...