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New York State Awards $500,000 to Develop Underground Railroad Corridor

New York State has announced that it is giving out a grant to the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State to start developing a…

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Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society

Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…

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Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.

In the Summer I went up into the Hudson Valley to see a statue of Sojourner Truth as a young woman. In the Fall I…

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Posted in Abolitionists Book Reviews

Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909 By Raymond James

Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909. By Raymond James Krohn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023, 288 pp. Paperback $35.00….

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Exhibit on Frederick Douglass Opened in Washington’s National Portrait Galley

A new exhibit on Frederick Douglass has opened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Galley in Washington. It will be open until April 21, 2024. Here…

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Posted in Abolitionists Civil War

June 17, 2023 New Exhibit on the Abolition of Slavery at Harrisburg Civil War Museum

The Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. will open a new exhibit on the pre-Civil War attempts to abolish slavery. Here is the description from…

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Can We Call Harriet Beecher Stowe an Abolitionist?

I have visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford and read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I have even seen the stained glass likeness of…

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Author Talk: First to Fall, The Twin Crusades of Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist and Martyr to Press Freedom April 22, 2023

The Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site is hosting an Author Talk on the murdered Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy on April 22, 2023. The program begins…

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Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction

Historical Marker Erected Near Sodus N.Y. Honoring Black Abolitionist Austin Steward

Sodus, near Rochester in Western New York, honored early African American Abolitionist Austin Steward with a historical marker near where he was brought to New…

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Commemoration of John Brown’s Raid to be Held at Harpers Ferry Oct. 15 & 16, 2022

One of the most important blows against slavery before the Civil War was John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry. A commemoration will be held there…

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