Robin Blackburn is the author of "The Making of New World Slavery" and "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery." He is a member of the graduate faculty of the New School University, New York. While there ...
For those who question the political efficacy of social movements, abolitionism is an arresting example of the possible. Beginning in small ways during the last third of the 18th century, abolitionism ...
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A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Credit - Felix Koch/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images Division, crisis, and political ...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian ...
In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...
NEWBURYPORT — John Greenleaf Whittier Home and Museum Executive Director Erika McAvoy and board President Anne Ferguson will visit “The Morning Show” on Thursday. Host Mary Jacobsen will interview ...
In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...
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