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...

First Report of the Ladies Society For The Relief of British Negro Slaves.

The 'First Report' of the Ladies Society For The Relief of British Negro Slaves(1825)bore on its front cover the female figure of a slave seeking j...

Fisk Jubilee Singers

The Jubilee Singers, The Ex-Slave Singers of Fisk University, At Birmingham Town Hall,February 26th and March 3rd, 1874. Founded in Nashville in...

Hannah Sturge

There are currently few available images of the powerful women who worked for local women's antislavery societies. This image of Hannah Sturge (wif...

Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (part 1)

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

Ida B. Wells in Birmingham

Submitted by Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church Ida B Wells (1861-1930), well-known in the USA, where a great deal has been written about...

J.A.James

John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the B...

J.W.C Pennington

In 1850, Pennington visited the 'Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves'. Dr Pennington was himself a slave until the...

Joseph Sturge

Image: Copy of an engraving of Joseph Sturge, originally published in 'The British Workman', 1859. Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antis...

Joseph Sturge with family and John Bright.

Image: nineteenth century photo of Joseph Sturge, taken from 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940). Click on Zoomify to enlarge.

Letter to the Reverend Thomas Swan

Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, Ma...

Memorial celebrating Abolition of the Apprenticeship System

Memorial presented to each Sunday scholar in Birmingham who 'Joined in Celebrating the Freedom of the Negroes'. On 1 August 1838, Joseph Sturge ...