Susan B. Anthony Delivers 100,000+ Signatures to U.S. Senate to Ban Slavery
Feminists and suffragists had agreed to suspend the women’s rights conventions until after the Civil War, but many of those same women continued the fight …
Charles Sumner
The Caning of Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner by Democrat
A statue at the Boston Public Garden is a reminder of the political violence that our nation experienced leading up to the Civil War. On …
A NY Tribune Article Suggests that Sharps Rifle was an “effective weapon to fight pro-slavery Democrats” and Becomes known as “Beecher’s Bible”
He was one of the most popular preachers in American in the middle 1800s. He was the brother of Harriett Beecher Stowe, who wrote the …