In 2026, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — a bold and revolutionary ...

In the 1840s, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, for example, “wanted to burn the Constitution and saw it as a ...

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Benjamin Lay by William Williams, Sr ... His first biographer, Benjamin Rush—physician, reformer, abolitionist and signer of the Declaration of Independence—noted that “there was a ...

In addition, government websites began scrubbing African-American history, including in the case of the National Park Service eliminating a photo of the famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman and ...

In Guyana, Quamina, an enslaved carpenter, his son Jack, and an English pastor, John Smith were leaders in the Demerara rebellion. In Jamaica, Baptist missionaries Samuel Sharpe and William ...

In the 1840s, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison ... tool could be used for justice instead of injustice.” By Casey Smith — The Indiana Capital Chronicle is an independent, not-for ...

In addition, government websites began scrubbing African-American history, including in the case of the National Park Service eliminating a photo of the famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman and ...

Library of Congress Yet there was a promising workaround: An early alliance between Northern abolitionists and ... Michigan soldier William Smith noted that the Confederate soldiers present ...

Freed and former slaves – as well as white abolitionists from the United States and Canada ... Sitting around a fire pit, conductor William “Tongrit” Green explained elements of the underground ...

The Rev. William Troy, a founder of the church and its first pastor, was a freeborn man of color from Virginia who, as a resident of Canada before the Civil War, had become a prominent abolitionist ..

Defense attorneys had sought a minimum 12½-year penalty for the former nonprofit executive who stole at least $44 million.