In the spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail as protests for his release turned violent.
Although fighting for a common cause, abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison suffered a major falling out.
The death of Harriet Beecher Stowe's son allowed her to imagine the pain of an enslaved mother's separation from her child.
George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release led Massachusetts to declare that state officials could not take part in the recapture of a fugitive slave.
In 1841, Frederick Douglass agreed to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for the abolitionism of slavery.
After having escaped to New York, Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
In September of 1838, escaped slave Frederick Douglass and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket.
In October 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston.
The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature — and created a backlash.
On a trip to Kentucky in 1833, Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed slavery up close.
William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his abolitionist newspaper on January 1, 1831.
Frederick Douglass named his abolitionist newspaper The North Star after the icon followed by escaped slaves on their journeys to freedom.
