Five Quaker groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over the end of an immigration policy ...

Buckson said a resolution seeking a posthumous pardon was presented to former President Joe Biden, but he did not take action ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the "traffic of Men-body." By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale ...

Feb. 2, 2-4 p.m. in person at the library, the African American Archives of Columbia County and the Hudson Area Library will ...

The Quakers were the first religious group to ally themselves to the abolitionist cause, and played a role in securing the freedom of Frederick Douglass. Some among them believed that buying an ...

Senator Eric Buckson (R-South Dover) has sent President Donald Trump a letter requesting a pardon for John Hunn. Hunn, a ...

The "meeting" is the Quaker form of spiritual contemplation and religious ... in the broader society is further demonstrated by their three centuries of work as abolitionists and educational reformers ...

They believed that God had created all men as equals. The Quakers became active campaigners. The Society For Effecting The Abolition Of The Slave Trade was formed in 1787, and most of its founders ...

They believed that God had created all men as equals. The Quakers became active campaigners. The Society For Effecting The Abolition Of The Slave Trade was formed in 1787, and most of its founders ...

Dover, wants Trump to grant clemency to John Hunn, a Quaker abolitionist born in 1818 who is widely regarded as the ...

Quakers then moved to America, where the movement grew. Many of these men and women became influential abolitionists who played key roles in the anti-slavery movement, women’s suffrage ...