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On this day in 1832, the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society (SFASS) was founded in Massachusetts. The abolitionist movement in the United States certainly precedes this society, however, this was the […]

On this day in 1895, Frederick Douglass–writer, abolitionist, women’s suffragist, statesman–passed away in his home in Washington, D.C. He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey circa 1818 in Maryland as […]

On this day in 1688, a community of Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania filed the Germantown Quaker Petition against Slavery. Francis Daniel Pastorius, who had founded Germantown in 1683 as […]

“The Golden Thirteen,” a name given to the first group of African American U.S. Naval commissioned and warrant officers, began training on this day in 1944. From the formation of […]

Blanche Kelso Bruce was born in 1841 to a house slave name Polly Bruce and a Virginia plantation owner named Pettis Perkinson, who educated him alongside his legitimate half brother. […]