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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University and Jeremy Mennis, Temple University (THE ...