Abolitionist

5 stories in the archive

Local History Index · Mar 9, 2022

The First Black Law Firm in America: Whipper, Elliott & Allen

Local History Index · Nov 16, 2021

William Cooper Nell: The First Published African American Historian in the United States

Local History Index · Nov 16, 2021

William Cooper Nell: The First Published African American Historian in the United States

History · Mar 31, 2019

Olaudah Equiano, the Enslaved Nigerian Who Became a Pioneer Abolitionist in England

History · Feb 12, 2019

Read the 1865 Anti-Slavery Speech of the First Black Man To Speak in the U.S. Capitol