The “Quaker Comet” Was the Greatest Abolitionist You’ve Never Heard Of Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation’s first radicals to argue for an end to slavery ...

Benjamin Lay, a radical Quaker dwarf called for the end of slavery over a century before the Civil War started in America. The abolitionist lived in Barbados and Philadelphia and befriending ...

John Woolman (1720-1772) was an American Quaker who took an early stand against slavery.

April 21, 2025 Play about a confrontational Quaker abolitionist in Philly in the 1700s is a show 'for the moment' Benjamin Lay inspired his congregation to turn against slavery. His story is ...

Wealthy Quaker merchants in whaling towns, like Martha’s Vineyard, were some of the earliest and most fervent supporters of abolition.

That makes Willard the ideal person to have written “Quaker Abolitionist: Breaking the Chains of Oppression,” a book about Quakers who were actively involved in the movement to end slavery.

SARATOGA — The old stone schoolhouse is gone — disassembled in the 1950s with its materials carted off to Vermont. But what happened at Dean’s Corner Schoolhouse lives on, thanks to a ...

Benjamin Lay, a white Quaker, was one of the first abolitionists to denounce slavery. A TikTok user named Mr. Crim 3, shed light on the freedom fighter's sparsely known story.

In 1773, a Quaker abolitionist sent Henry an antislavery pamphlet. When I first began reading Henry’s answer, I thought the pamphlet had done its trick.

In 1860, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson—the daughter of Quaker abolitionists—attended a public debate in her native Philadelphia titled “Women’s Rights and Wrongs.” She had not planned to ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and ...