In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Over the course of 87 years of nearly ceaseless activity, Higginson had been a teacher, minister, state legislator, fiery ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Preservation Iowa has added two properties to its list of most-endangered historic buildings. Where are they and can they be ...

Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen Brown. Miralles' house burned.

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

The gravesite of Owen Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the ...

Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown. Owen moved to Pasadena in the 1880s and was greeted by locals as a hero for fighting alongside his father in the ...