In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...

In my new book, “Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice,” I argue that we should move toward abolishing survival debt entirely. By allowing credit to be the only solution for ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Much of the credit for the success of the abolitionist campaign must go to William Wilberforce for making the abolition of slavery an issue for debate in Parliament. His ability as a speaker ...

In 1787, the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was set up. William Wilberforce MP represented the Society in Parliament. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade decided that ...

The comparison was not lost on Douglass, who wrote in an 1846 letter to well-known American abolitionist William Lloyd ...

In 1787, they established the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, whose purpose was to campaign for the slave trade to be brought to an end. William Wilberforce was a member of ...

He attended Abolitionists' meetings. He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal, the Liberator. In 1841, he saw Garrison speak at the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting.

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. A network of local abolition groups was established across Britain. These groups campaigned through ...

This church is rightly proud of the fact that William Wilberforce and the other abolitionists prayed and worshipped in these pews. But what's been forgotten is that sitting just a few metres away ...

William Wilberforce made the abolition of slavery an issue for debate in Parliament. His ability as a speaker persuaded many others of the need to end the trade. James Stephen's bill of 1806 was ...

The abolitionists used many ways to convince people that the slave trade should be abolished. As the ideas of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade grew in popularity, a network of ...