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 ...

A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the ...

Eight years after the end of the American Civil War, the Columbus Public Library opened on March 4, 1873, as a single reading room in the original stand-alone Columbus City Hall building. The library ...

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 ...

Most of us are familiar with the name John Brown, the famous abolitionist who believed in using violence to bring an end to slavery in America. He openly fought for slaves' freedom even before the ...

The historic accomplishments of Black abolitionists in Newburyport will be recognized Tuesday with the formal unveiling of a new interpretive panel in the Merrimack Valley city. The “Grant Us Our ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Willis Augustus Hodges isn’t a name found in most history books, but local historians argue it should be. If you visit the Cape Henry Lighthouse, you’ll see his photo in ...

“Cunning better than strong” is a Jamaican proverb; a message of survival and resistance that urges us to use our brain rather than our brawn to overcome oppressors. It’s a proverb that is ...

According to abolitionist Thaddeus Hurlbut, who was inside the warehouse, the mob fired the first shots when it made a second assault on the building. Only then did Lovejoy and his men return fire.

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 ...