The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1835 at Oberlin College by Theodore Dwight Weld, Arthur Tappan, and others. In 1839, the Society published “American Slavery As It Is: Testimony ...

Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar.

The Peterboro Presbyterian Church threw open its doors 175 years ago this month to some 400 abolitionists, the determined remnants of a larger group driven out of Utica’s Second Presbyterian ...