In 1838, he escaped to the North, settling in the abolitionist stronghold of New Bedford, Massachusetts. After reading William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator, and hearing him speak at ...

The Liverpool museum said it was a "remarkable surviving product" of the early abolitionist movement. It was purchased using a £50,000 Art Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund grant. A museum ...

A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they ...