AAPBIn celebration of #Juneteenth, discover the history of the #AbolitionistMovement and the fight for #CivilRights with The Abolitionists Interview Collection, featuring interviews from the #AmericanExperience miniseries: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/the-abolitionists-interviews
Listen as Lois Brown, professor in the African American Studies Program and the Department of English at Wesleyan University, highlights the conversion of Northerners to the cause of abolition as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 brought the enforcement of slavery to their doorstep.