They didn't want him to speak about Northern racism, to take on the whole picture of the anti-slavery movement as much as he did. And it had a lot to do with why Douglass eventually broke with the ...

Although no slave ship was ever launched from Belfast, the story of the city’s involvement - like the rest of the island - was more complicated. Many people started to get very wealthy on the ...

An academic is hunting for the first photo in England of a famed anti-slavery campaigner. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled at the University of Leeds to honour the city's links to the anti-slavery movement. Quaker activists Mary and Wilson Armistead, who lived at Lyddon Hall - now a ...

The campaign has also been designed to raise funds for ASA so every product ‘purchased’ equates to a donation. ASA are advocates of the anti-slavery movement in Australia and are the only specialist ...

Her pedigree among the slaveholding aristocracy was a weapon that few other abolitionists could claim, and it lent credibility to her anti-slavery views and to the movement as a whole. In 1836 ...

And in 2008, he founded the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-Mauritania). Alongside other Mauritanian anti­slavery organizations, such as SOS-Esclaves, IRA ...