Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a London draper,...
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Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for...
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He argues that the New Testament allows women to serve as pastors in local churches. He contends that female pastors rightly function as shepherds over the men...
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Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain's stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist movement.
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The Empire State Rare Book & Print Fair will take place Sept. 27–29 at City College of New York and bring more than 40 rare book exhibitors.
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New York Manumission Society, early abolitionist group (founded 1785) that worked to end the slave trade in New York, to ban slavery, to gradually...
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American independence was one of many revolutions sparked in 1776. How can we live faithfully in the new order they created?
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Freedom's Journal was the first Black-owned and operated weekly newspaper in the United States. The paper served not only as a forum for the abolitionist...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a...
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Liberty Party, U.S. political party (1840–48) created by abolitionists who believed in political action to further antislavery goals.
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