The Society of Friends - better known as Quakers - were leading members of the abolitionist movement. They objected to the trade in human beings on religious and moral grounds. Most of the ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale movement in Pennsylvania. Led by such Quaker activists as Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, many Philadelphia slaveholders of all denominations had ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday ...

They worked in tandem with white Quakers and Anglican abolitionists. It will also cover the failed schemes to resettle former slaves, from the harsh treatment of Black Loyalists who were resettled ...

Five Quaker groups — including ... of Native Americans’ rights, were early abolitionists and had many leaders involved in the women’s suffrage movement, according to History.com.

The daughter of Quaker abolitionists ... and joined forces with her to promote the women's movement, temperance, and abolition. The following year, Anthony formed the first temperance group ...