No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...

Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...

On April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...