Abolitionism: Did you mean...?

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.

Passmore Williamson, abolitionist, in Moyamensing Prison in 1855, portrait by Emil Luders, lithograph by Augustus Kollner, published by Thomas Curtis, Philadelphia, c. 1855. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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."

Three-quarter-length portrait of John Brown, salt print, reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence, May 1859. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Front cover of The History of Mary Prince, 1831.

View of the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia, from the Jitney Trail. Pictou was the home of the Reverend James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830), the first published abolitionist in the history of the region now known as Canada.

The Reverend William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 to c. 1879), former overseer, abolitionist, and author of The Underground Railroad (1860), the only full-length work published on the subject while slavery was still legal in the USA and efforts to...

Clint Smith teaches you about one of the most famous writers, orators, and advocates of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born in slavery, escaped to the North, and became one of the most influential people of his time. Douglass...