In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...

Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows. The following night, the protestors set fire to ...

Well into her 80s, Mary Ann McCracken campaigned against slavery and social injustice in Belfast and across the world One of Belfast‘s most famous abolitionists and social reformers, Mary Ann ...

In 1860, they published an account of their escape entitled Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, which helped to make them among the most famous refugees from slavery. After the US Civil War ...