To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement 160635194X, 9781606351949, 2013042583

The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 18

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To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
160635194X, 9781606351949, 2013042583

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