Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer shaping the course of the

shaping the course of the Civil War

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

In early July 1864

have an accident on the carpet

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer shaping the course of theby 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