Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.

Meet The Black Woman Abolitionist Whose Name Is Replacing a White Slaveowner's In A Town Square This Georgia city is renaming a historic district in her honor, as it should.

Q: Please discuss the racism in the abolitionist movement. A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest ...

It’s been over a month since Amy Cooper, a white woman walking her dog in NYC's Central Park called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation to Amy), a Black man bird-watching in the same ...

"Sisters in Freedom" documents Philly’s less discussed history of Black and White female abolitionists who were so audacious that they spoke in public despite the taboos of doing so.

Josiah Wedgwood. The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art. Josiah Wedgwood, Britain's renowned potter, was a man of conscience, deeply ...

In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson published a book about life as an indentured servant in New Hampshire. It remains an obscure classic because it challenges white ideals about racism in the North.