1-9-13: The Forgotten Women of the Abolition Movement

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For the next three Saturdays at 7pm, Maryland Public Television’s MPT2 channel will air The Abolitionists from PBS’s “American Experience” history series.

The Abolitionists focuses on five major characters in the struggle for freedom, including Baltimore’s own Frederick Douglass. The series starts with the decision of a pampered southern daughter of slaveholders to move north to fight slavery, and then William Lloyd Garrison’s efforts in 1831 to launch his anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.

One historian who appears in the film is Julie Roy Jeffrey, a professor of history at Goucher College in Towson. She is the author of The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Abolitionist Movement. She tells Sheilah about the role of women in the movement.

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Douglass and Garrison

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