Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer earning seven Medals of Honor

earning seven Medals of Honor

In early July 1864

Young readers: Grade 7-9

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 earning seven Medals of Honorby 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