A group of Quakers is marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington this month to denounce 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In December, 1837, Sarah Mapps Douglass, daughter of a prominent free black Philadelphia family, wrote to Quaker abolitionist William Basset of Lynn, Massachusetts. Encouraged by her friend Sarah ...

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

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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 ...