In 1848, he attended the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. His position on women, as well as his belief that political power should be used to help achieve abolition ...

From 1848 through the Civil War ... Members of the AASS argued that abolition could only be achieved by persuading Americans—slaveholders and non-slaveholders alike—that human bondage was ...

Years later, some of those in Allentown on June 1, 1848, would remember the weather as warm, dry, and exceptionally windy. In fact, the entire spring had been notable for its lack of moisture.

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement inspired by activists and politicians from around the world began to bring ...

The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism. All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate ...