This action is the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1833 work Justice and Expediency.
This action is the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1833 work Justice and Expediency. The New York Manumission Society, led by John Jay, had this change as its goal. Josiah Wedgwood crafted medallions pushing for it with the slogan "Am I Not a Man And a Brother?" Illinois printer Elijah Lovejoy was killed by a mob for supporting this action. FTP, what is this social stance advocated by Henry Ward Beecher and John Brown, which was codified in law by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitution's 14th Amendment?
This action is the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1833 work Justice and Expediency.
Abolition of slavery (accept reasonable synonyms for "abolition," like "elimination"--at least in Orlando)