Word: abolitionists
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...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...
...Scully argues, the animal movement is broader than this caricature. Modern animal advocacy began as the cause of 19th century Christian reformers combating slavery and child abuse. Indeed, William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is a hero in modern Christian conservative circles...
...Civil War abolitionist tensions ran high at the school. While Hayes later became known for ending Reconstruction, he declined to take a side in the dispute over slavery during his time at Harvard...
...Hayes also crossed paths with President John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, who was a major presence on campus and who was a noted orator on behalf of the abolitionist cause...
Before sundown on Friday, 15 brave students from English 176: “The 19th-Century American Novel” ventured out to Mt. Auburn Cemetery with professors Elisa New and Jason Stevens to visit the grave of Harriet Jacobs, an abolitionist originally from North Carolina, and discuss 19th century funerary culture...