Why were the founders of the Ellen Stone Building angry in the 1850s?
By the 1850s, the Robbins family and fellow abolitionists were angry. The nation had passed a Fugitive Slave Act that allowed slavecatchers, with the cooperation of the authorities, to openly operate in Boston to grab free Blacks and self-emancipated men and women off the street. In this two-part “Backstories” conversation, historians Kathleen Dalton and Dean […]
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