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Historians acknowledge the existence of “two abolitionisms” in the antebellum United States—one black, one white. Although black and white abolitionists shared similar views about the moral evil of slavery, they ...

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in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass Length: 6248 words

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