HIGH POINT — How committed is local historian and author Linda Willard to the notion of Quakers opposing slavery? “I’m so opposed to the idea that a person can be owned that I refused to ...

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

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 ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Jonesborough is home to the first publication dedicated to the abolitionist movement named “The Emancipator.” It called for the freeing of slaves deca… ...

JENKINTOWN, Pa. — One day in the 1990s, Dave Wermeling stumbled across an etching of a small, bearded man in a Colonial outfit in the Quaker meeting house where he is the caretaker. "Benjamin ...

In "Yankee Quaker Confederate General," his 1971 biography of Johnson, Charles M. Cummings wrote that Nathan Johnson, Bushrod's brother who was born in 1794, "was to assume leadership of the family.

The untold story of America’s founding. James Forten was just 15 years old when he served as a gunpowder handler on Stephen Decatur’s 22-gun privateer, the Royal Louis, during the American Revolution.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A Bible more than two centuries old that belonged to a white Charleston-based merchant and enslaver-turned abolitionist is now under the care of the South Carolina ...