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Abolitionist Biographies

…and educator at Williamsburg’s African School, protested voting discrimination, and led the first recorded West India Emancipation Celebration in Williamsburg. After the Civil War, he returned to Virginia and became heavily involved in politics. William was married to Mary Hodges, an Englishwoman listed in the census as white. When she died Brooklynite William E. Whiting, a well-known abolitionist in the American Anti-Slavery Society delivered he…

This entry was posted on October 8, 2013 by Prithi.

Abolitionist Brooklyn (1828 – 1849)

…. Teacher’s Manual Section 2: Lesson 9 Critics often demonized abolitionists in the press, by arguing that they promoted miscegenation, or interracial relationships, a sexual perversity in their eyes. In doing so they belittled the abolition movement which represented the first time that Americans crossed race and gender lines to work with mutual political purpose. Prints such as E. W. Clay’s “Fruits of Amalgamation” reflected the contemporary pr…

This entry was posted on October 8, 2013 by Prithi.
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