Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) Section-Women During the CW Carefully analyzing a vast and

Carefully analyzing a vast and remarkable photographic record of Port Hudson

RABBI JONATHAN SARNA

Michael was captured and imprisoned in several Confederate prisons such as Pemberton

and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership

Nothing in the history and traditions of the U

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) Section-Women During the CW Carefully analyzing a vast andby Michael Roy During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; Susan Paul, an African American primary school teacher; Henry Clarke Wright, a white reformer; and Frederick Douglass, the internationally renowned activist, consistently appealed to the sympathies of children against slavery. In 1835, Garrison proclaimed, If . . . we desire to see our land delivered from the curse