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• SOURCE: JStor Daily
  6/29/2020
  

  Abolitionist “Wide Awakes” Were Woke Before “Woke”

  What the "Wide Awakes" helped create was focus in muddled political times, a whipping up of the enthusiasm of other voters: “By the end of 1860, the nation was wide awake.”

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/26/20
  

  Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort

  Sotheby’s announced Wednesday that it is auctioning off a 1794 land deed for the first location of the African Free School in lower Manhattan, one of the first educational institutions founded to prepare free people of color and the children of enslaved people for life after slavery.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  August 27, 2019
  

  155 Years After His Death, Abolitionist John Pierre Burr’s Epitaph Updated to Include His Father, Aaron Burr

  Two of the most famous figures in American history share more than space in a history textbook.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Stonewall's Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah's Misuse of History

  by Alan Singer

  What Appiah misses in his dismissal of the Stonewall Rebellion’s historical importance is that symbols like Rosa Parks sitting down and Stonewall are crucial to social movements as they mobilize and move from the political margins to the center of civic discourse.

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• SOURCE: The American Historian
  06/17/2019
  

  Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipations Celebrations Since 1808

  by Wilma King

  June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/25/19
  

  Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More

  Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  3/20/19
  

  No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US Wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery

  by Juan Cole

  Slavery began in British North America in the 1600s. So it took longer than 150 years to abolish it. More like 200 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  The U.S. should get more credit for ending slavery ‘within 150 years,’ Fox panelist says

  Many historians were quick to correct and criticize her remarks. 

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• 3/24/19
  

  A House Once More Divided

  by Georgiann Baldino

  Lincoln understood that involved citizens preserve the union, and he taught a vital lesson that only when human rights are respected is democracy worth preserving.

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• 6/17/18
  

  The Great Black Abolitionist the World Forgot

  by Jared A. Brock

  His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-23-18
  

  Underground Railroad Safe House Discovered in Philadelphia

  Preservationists say they have identified the home of famed black abolitionist William Still, who offered refuge to hundreds of freedom seekers.

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• SOURCE: Chapelboro.com
  12-7-17
  

  Abolition Day Kicks Off Year-Long Campaign to Commemorate Frederick Douglass in North Carolina

  “Of the many things that he did, and his ideas are still with us."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-12-17
  

  In a new book Marcus Rediker draws attention to an 18th century ultraradical hunchback dwarf

  You never hard of him. You should. His name was Benjamin Lay and he pushed Quakers to adopt abolitionism.

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• SOURCE: AAIHS
  3-31-17
  

  The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery, and Yale

  by Eric Herschthal

  The fortunes of our nation’s universities depended not only on slaveholders, but on their strange and sometime allies, conservative abolitionists.

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• 3-5-17
  

  The Pioneering Feminist, Freethinker and Abolitionist History Forgot (And then Found)

  by Bonnie S. Anderson

  Jew, atheist, woman, and foreigner, Ernestine Rose was written out of American history.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-18-16
  

  Historian says liberals worried about Trump should ask “What would the abolitionists do?”

  by Linda Hirshman

  Linda Hirshman is working on a history of abolitionism.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-24-13
  

  Manisha Sinha: The Forgotten Emancipationists

  Manisha Sinha is a professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of “The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina” and the forthcoming “The Slave’s Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America’s Interracial Democracy.”On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, discussion over who freed the slaves, fueled by movies like “Lincoln,” have become commonplace. While historians have debated the relative roles of Abraham Lincoln and the slaves themselves in the coming of emancipation, few have paid attention to the abolitionists, the forgotten emancipationists in the story of black freedom.

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• Does Slavery Still Exist Today?

  by Robert E. Wright

   Credit: Flickr/Inheritance magazine.