Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) kearny by Kelly D

by  Kelly D

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by Edward Steers Jr & Kieran McAuliffe

and politicians who found themselves swept up in one of the war’s most gripping engagements

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) kearny by Kelly Dby Michael Roy During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; Susan Paul, an African American primary school teacher; Henry Clarke Wright, a white reformer; and Frederick Douglass, the internationally renowned activist, consistently appealed to the sympathies of children against slavery. In 1835, Garrison proclaimed, If . . . we desire to see our land delivered from the curse