Abigail Higgins
Abigail Higgins is a journalist and writer in Washington D.C. focusing on health, gender, and international affairs.
Articles From This Author
Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs
The ink had barely dried on the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, when recently returned black veterans grabbed their guns and stationed themselves on rooftops in black neighborhoods in Washington D.C., prepared to act as snipers in the case of mob violence ...read more
American Women Fought for Suffrage for 70 Years. It Took WWI to Finally Achieve It
Helen Dore Boylston was a young American nurse serving on the front lines of World War I, so she was no stranger to chaos. But the steady drone of hundreds of motors advancing towards her hospital in France in 1918 was unlike anything she had ever heard before. An air raid was ...read more
Meet Elizabeth Freeman, one of the First Enslaved Women to Sue for Her Freedom—and Win
In 1780, the proclamation “all men are born free and equal,” rang out from the central square in the small town of Sheffield in western Massachusetts. The line was from the state’s newly ratified constitution, read aloud for a proud public to hear. America’s war for independence ...read more
How an African Prince Who Was Kidnapped Into Slavery Outsmarted His Captors
After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was desperate to make the man about to purchase him, Thomas Foster, understand his terrible mistake: he wasn’t supposed to be enslaved, the 26-year-old was the heir to one of Africa’s most influential ...read more