In the very first issue of his anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison stated, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will ...
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Rankin's 'Letters on American Slavery' set out a moral argument for abolition that resonated across the nation.
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click image for close-up By the time this photo was taken, William Lloyd Garrison's dream of a United States with no slavery had been realized. In 1865, at the close of the Civil War, and after ...
Few today would include Rankin in a list of notable abolitionists. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison are renowned, and rightly so. But in important ways, Rankin’s work provided a ...