In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end Chattel slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the ab
Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, c. 1850, design partly based on the Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion
Thones Kunders's house at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was written
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), judge who wrote The Selling of Joseph (1700) which denounced the spread of slavery in the American colonies
Grave of Benjamin Kent, lawyer who freed a slave in America (1766)
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century
Douglass, c. 1879
Anna Murray Douglass, Douglass's wife for 44 years, portrait c. 1860
Douglass, c. 1840s, in his 20s
The home and meetinghouse of the Johnsons, where Douglass and his wife lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts