Kellie Carter Jackson is the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is coeditor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory.
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of 'moral suasion' and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had incre... SEE MORE