Dr. Marion Kilson, PhD

Nell made the case that civil equality was due to African Americans, because of their significant contributions to the founding of the nation.

On November 10, 1884 both The Boston Daily Globe and The Boston Herald reported the burial of William Wells Brown in the Cambridge Cemetery; two days before his death had been recorded in six Boston newspapers.[1] At the time of his death Brown was probably seventy years old. Born enslaved near Lexington, Kentucky to an…

In addition to his family Paul Cuffe remembered the Society of Friends in Westport, leaving fifty dollars to �be paid over to their treasurer, by my executors, according to the direction of the monthly meeting.�� Cuffe�s parents are said to have adhered to Quaker principles though they were not Quakers.� Cuffe joined the Westport Meeting…

Note: Although this is an imagined letter from Sarah Parker Remond to her elder brother, Charles Lenox Remond, it is based on historical facts including some of Sarah Parker Remond’s own words. Charles Lenox Remond was the first African American agent for the American Antislavery Society and celebrated as its foremost spokesman until the advent…