Abolitionism: Did you mean...?

Passmore Williamson (1822-1895), abolitionist, imprisoned for assisting a runaway slave, Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, 1855. Chester County Historical Society.

Portrait of abolitionist Dr. John Doy, by Thomas Holman, 1860. The print was published in John Doy's The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas: "A Plain, Unvarnished Tale."

Passmore Williamson, abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, c. 1856-1860, photograph by Guterkunst & Brothers, 1856-1860. Boston Public Library.

John Brown's tombstone, North Elba, New York. Photograph by Mwanner, 2008.

Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth, wearing a dark dress and a white shawl and cap, holding her knitting in her hand. Photograph taken in 1864, restored by Adam Cuerden. Beneath her image is a printed caption that...

A photograph of Harriet Tubman, former slave and the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Harvey B. Lindsley (1842-1921), c. 1871. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Solomon Northup in his plantation suit, by Frederick M. Coffin, frontispiece to an 1859 edition of Twelve Years a Slave, first published in 1853.

The International Underground Railroad Memorial, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Photograph by Mikerussell, 2007.

Abraham Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored people of Baltimore, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 29 October, 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

William Still (1819-1902), the abolitionist known as the "Father of the Underground Railroad" for the records of escaped slaves he kept and later published as The Underground Railroad Records in 1872...