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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The daughter of Quaker abolitionists, Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) left her teaching career in 1849 to join her family's work in the abolition and temperance movements. In 1851, Anthony met ...

For abolitionists, she cared too much about “the woman question”, for feminists, she was too concerned with anti-slavery ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born in 1821, Lewis benefitted from an egalitarian Quaker upbringing ... Uncle Bartholomew was an active abolitionist, and the family formed a local auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.