abolitionist
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His mother, who introduced him at age 5 to Walden Pond, was an abolitionist who ran a station on the Underground Railroad, for which he would act as a conductor.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
Beshear’s refusal was enormously significant in forestalling a real step backward for the abolitionist movement.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025
Skeptical readers couldn’t help wondering why spirits of people who had lived in places as different as eighteenth-century Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, all sounded like a nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist from western New York.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
