The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

An emboldened fringe movement is breaking with the antiabortion establishment by pushing for women who get abortions to face criminal charges, a departure from decades of “pro-life” tradition.

Fringe movement sparks divide with push to charge women who get abortions ‘Abortion abolitionists’ are taking on traditional antiabortion forces, which have long been uncomfortable with the ...

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.

The prison abolition movement asks us to remember that it’s not inevitable, and that we are active agents in deciding the kind of world we want to live in. Next time, we’ll talk about utopia ...

Books That Shaped the Abolitionist Movement ...

Dinah Nevil came to the city in 1773 and insisted on freedom for herself and her children. And jump started the nation's ...

In Devon, the origins of the abolition movement can be traced back to early Quakers. George Fox, the founder of the movement, openly charged Barbados plantation owners of ill-treating slaves in 1671.

New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history. The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of abortion 'abolitionists' who want to punish women for having abortions is gaining influence, emboldened by the end of Roe vs. Wade and ...