The next video in the series from CUNY’s great conference on Abolitionism is filled with heavy hitters talking about the political crisis of the 1850s. The video is below. Here is the list of panelists:
SESSION THREE: POLITICAL CRISIS OF THE 1850s
Presiding: David Waldstreicher, CUNY Graduate Center
The Underground Railroad Reconsidered: Antebellum Politics and the Challenges of Counting Fugitive Slaves and Their Allies
Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
The Van and the Rear: Abolition and the Politics of Antislavery
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The King’s Cure: Lincoln, State Abolition, and the Origins of the Thirteenth Amendment
James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
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