Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

In early July 1864

before embarrassing themselves at Seven Pines—their first land battle—just outside Richmond

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Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer Winner of the Bancroft Prizeby 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