Add to ORKGWhen the crisis in Kansas over allowing—or banning—slavery in the territory erupted in 1854, it became a symbol of the cause for both southerners and northern abolitionists. Noted abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson traveled to Kansas in 1856. On his way, he stopped in St. Louis and visited a slave auction. Kenneth Winn introduces Higginson’s account, reprinted here
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The ideas of Illinois and Missouri as divided over slavery masks the fluid nature of support for or ...
A leading social reformer and pioneering abolitionist, British journalist Harriet Martineau fueled t...
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Abolitionism came relatively late to Lewis Tappan. Devotional, benevolent and hardworking are all wo...
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