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Mapping John Brown: How one man’s failed rebellion expanded the abolitionist cause

In some cases, failing extravagantly can work in favor of your cause. Go big or go home, as it were. John Brown was an American abolitionist who…

Sonya ColemanJanuary 15, 2013

Digital Projects

LVA Partners with American Experience to Populate the Abolitionist Map of America: Interactive Map Explores the Legacy of the Anti-Slavery Movement

How did views on slavery evolve in the decades leading up to the Civil War? What different concerns did Quakers, soldiers, and revolutionaries express about…

Sonya ColemanJanuary 8, 2013