A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one of ...

While this was not an expressly abolitionist paper, the editor, David Ammen, was a friend and neighbor who shared many of Rankin’s anti-slavery views and who was eager to share Rankin’s ...

The Great Abolitionist” by Stephen Puleo is a richly sourced, informative and eminently readable biography of 19th century ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

which is why it’s egregious that a woman has never been featured on US paper currency.” The proposed legislation calls on the Treasury to feature the abolitionist’s image on $20 bills ...