"The call to defund the police is, I think, an abolitionist demand, but it reflects only one aspect of the process rep…"

"In 1770, on the eve of the American Revolution, African American slavery was legal and almost unquestioned throughout…"

"The way to abolish slavery in America is to vote such men into power as well use their powers for the abolition of sl…"

"The Abolitionst... must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion."

"In this study the term "abolitionist" will be applied to those Americans who before the Civil War had agitated for im…"

"Meanwhile, a wave of Protestant revivals known as the Second Great Awakening swept the country during the first third…"

"The delegates of the annual conference are decidedly opposed to modern Abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, w…"

"In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, com…"

"During the Civil War, one of the nation's leading abolitionists was Republican Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts…"

"Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come. T…"