… us important moments of triumph and creative reinvention: emancipation in the Civil War, the passage of the … leadership in the wake of the 1960s, the modern emancipation of women and their rise into positions of power, …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… to support the antislavery cause. Led by the Glasgow Emancipation Society and the indefatigable American … arriving in August with an invitation from the Glasgow Emancipation Society, had quickly dedicated himself to the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… and disenthralled by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation.” (Cheers.) He came here in pursuit of freedom. … styled abolitionists—men who had laboured ardently for the emancipation of the slaves in the West India islands—men who …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition