Linda Hirshman with The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation (Virtual) – wgbh.org

American Ancestors/NEHGS and the Boston Public Library present an American Inspiration author talk virtually hosted by GBH Forum Network, featuring bestselling author Linda Hirshman and moderator LMerchie Frazier.

In her latest work about social movements, the legal scholar and social historian Linda Hirshman chronicles abolition the social spirit, people, and political alliances that changed American history.

The overturning of slavery was an astonishing historical achievement, a crucial landmark in moral progress. Chronicling its origins in the Second Great Awakening, Linda Hirshman shows how the movement was fraught with tensions from within. Yet it moved forward, driven by a powerful activist triumvirate: printer William Lloyd Garrison, who was a core creator of the movement; Frederick Douglass, the charismatic former slave whose eloquence roused the nation; and the lesser-known Maria Weston Chapman, a Boston socialite whose copious and largely unexplored correspondence Hirshman fully examines.

Dont miss learning more about these key players, their New England story, and the political movement that fueled the Republican Party and, ultimately, the Civil War.

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This virtual event will begin at 6pm Eastern Standard Time.

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