This is the grave of Charles Sumner. Born in Boston in 1811, Sumner's family were strong abolitionists and of course their son picked this up with passion. He graduated from Harvard in 1830 and entered the law in 1834. He traveled in Europe for a...
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This is the grave of Lysander Spooner. Born in 1808 in Athol, Masschusetts, Spooner never went to college but nonetheless studied with some of his state's top lawyers and became.
Here's something not terrible: a previously unknown picture of Harriet Tubman, showing her at a significantly younger age that the famed picture of her. Pretty cool. This reminds me of.
Richard Kreitner brings up the odd 1857 abolitionist convention in Worcester threatening secession as an avenue to asking tough questions of modern voters about the rhetoric of extremism running through American society. I hesitate to suggest this story has too much value for us today....
Lest one think that the Gutenberg Project only provides bizarre books of America's past that make ridiculous arguments, let me at least point out that you can access such texts.
Rebecca Onion highlights some pages from Lewis Tappan's anti-slavery children's magazine that he ran in the late 1830s. Because the American Anti-Slavery Society favored complete and immediate emancipation, writes historian.