Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)

(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.

"Equiano and Birmingham"

All text by Dr Andy Green Equiano and Birmingham: Researching the Links. This exhibition is intended to generate more research into Olaud...

"The Joseph Sturge Monument "

The Joseph Sturge Monument at Five Ways: A Photographic Essay. All text by Dr Andy Green This city story highlights the changing fortunes of...

Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.

This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectiv...

Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith came to Birmingham in 1879. Born into slavery in the United States, Amanda Smith's father bought his freedom and that of his family. S...

AMERICAN SLAVERY TO ENGLISH MINISTRY: THE REVD. PETER THOMAS STANFORD (1860-1909)

Submitted by Rev. Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church, Birmingham. In 1995 I was investigating the history of Highgate Baptist Church, when ...

Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',

In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that...

Antislavery Lecture by Rev Thomas Swan (extract).

Lectures, speeches, public addresses and sermons were a vitally important way of spreading the word about slavery to the Birmingham public. The ext...

Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.

Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List) This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery S...

Birmingham Canal

Image: Photograoh from Warwickshire Photographic Survey (date unknown). The canal systems were vital for the developemt of metal industries in B...

Birmingham's 'Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ .

The reports, minute books, cash books and illustrated albums of Birmingham’s ‘Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ show just how organ...

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, a controversial African-American figure, was perhaps one of the last great abolitionists to visit Birmingham who had lived th...