A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump ...

David Brion Davis, a leading historian of abolitionism, dismissed him as a mentally deranged, obsessive “little hunchback.” Lay gets better treatment from amateur Quaker historians ...

A group of Quakers is marching from New York City to Washington, D.C., to protest the Trump administration's immigration ...

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

How do you capture a man who protested slavery so loudly and boldly in 1700s Philadelphia that he was kicked out of his Quaker congregation — an abolitionist who was written off as an eccentric ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the "traffic of Men-body." By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale ...

Plus, a show intertwining Korean female divers with cultural identity and the tale of Johnny Appleseed's grandson.

New Bedford Friends Meeting members still keep to the Quaker ways of old while trying to help their community in the here-and ...

The first half of the 1800s saw a surge of abolitionist activism, rooted in early Quaker efforts and Indigenous wisdom. Abolitionism reshaped American politics into a fuller democracy, linking ...

Financing the fight against slavery The economic power generated by whaling helped fund the abolitionist movement in tangible ways. Wealthy Quaker merchants in whaling towns, like Martha’s ...