Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-Century America by Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth.

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His father recognized one catcher and fled, leaping 20 feet from a bedroom window, according to an account from Garnet's friend, abolitionist Alexander Crummell. His mother escaped to a nearby ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and a ...

The billboard, much like the work itself, is confrontational in its stillness. It asks observers to unlearn. To unlearn the ...

Stephen Puleo, The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. Charles Sumner (1811-1874), like most Radical Republicans and ...

Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought a number of slaves. And those contradictions, and the families involved ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

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