Abolitionism: Did you mean...?

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so relatives could find them later. A wealthy coal...

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

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

Representation of the box in which Henry Box Brown was shipped to freedom in 1849. After his successful escape from slavery, many others were inspired to try the same. Image from the Narrative of Henry Box Brown, 1849. Boston Public Library...

A photograph of John Doy and the Immortal Ten, a militant abolitionist group, in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, taken by Amon Gilbert DaLee, 1859. From left to right, the photograph features Major James B. Abbott, Captain Joshua A. Pike, Jacob...

John Brown, daguerreotype by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846-1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad...

The Rev. James MacGregor Monument, Pictou, Nova Scotia. James MacGregor (1759-1830) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who wrote the first anti-slavery tract in Canada and helped fugitive slaves arriving there from the USA. Photograph...

Lear Green (c. 1839-1860), a former slave who had herself shipped in a crate from Baltimore, Maryland, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery, illustration from The Underground Railroad by William Still, 1872.

Lydia Maria Child (l. 1802-1880), American author, abolitionist, human rights activist, and editor of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, pictured here reading a book. Photograph by John A. Whipple, c. 1865. Library...

Edward G. Walker (sometimes given as Edwin G. Walker, l. 1830-1901), son of abolitionist David Walker, one of the first two Black men elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature.