Word: abolitionist
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Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...
...Abolitionist Negro Frederick Douglass...
...inspired outbursts of folk songs. Independence-minded folk singers of the 1730s wrote anti-British songs so "seditious" that Governor William Cosby of New York felt called upon to stage a public song burning. In the America that Walt Whitman heard singing, New Hampshire's Hutchinson Family drew abolitionist admirers like William Lloyd Garrison. Today's folk singers are lyrically lashing out at everything from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more...
...attack on segregation has revived interest in Douglass. His early autobiography, published in 1845, has now been reissued. Written when Douglass was 27 or 28 (he was never certain of his age, since the births of slaves were rarely recorded), it is a classic of abolitionist literature without the steamy rhetoric of much abolitionist writing...
...Liberator, by John L. Thomas. The great abolitionist emerges from this objective biography as a fanatic who infuriated his fellow abolitionists as much as the slaveowners...