Book · August 17, 2022
Jesse Olsavsky’s The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. ...
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Journal ArticleHistory Workshop Journal · July 27, 2021
AbstractThis essay reveals the ways that runaways and abolitionists, through their critiques of American prisons in the decades prior to the American Civil War, collectively originated the ideas and practice ...
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Chapter · March 2021
This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. ...
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Chapter · May 29, 2020
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth, the chapters in this book reflect on the local, national, and international significance of his remarkable life and legacy in relation to his specific commitments to socialism ... ...
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Chapter · July 30, 2019
Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. ...
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