abolitionist

Which is why, despite my love of berries for birds and nectar for butterflies, I’m not a total turf abolitionist.

Lincoln was addressing a fractured North, not abolitionists, and he knew that striking too soon at slavery might drive the wavering border states into Confederate arms—a shift that could doom the Union cause.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Radical abolitionist John Brown and his sons hacked five men to death with swords.

As slavery reached the zenith of its power, abolitionists would destroy the white consensus upon which it depended.