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Jesse Joseph Olsavsky
Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University
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jesse.olsavsky@dukekunshan.edu.cn
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The Most Absolute Abolition Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
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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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