Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) kearny clad in rags

clad in rags

and four grandchildren

after-the-fact description

by Edward Steers Jr & Kieran McAuliffe

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) kearny clad in ragsby 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