Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer Young readers: Grade 7-9

Young readers: Grade 7-9

Samuel Alexander Mudd

before embarrassing themselves at Seven Pines—their first land battle—just outside Richmond

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer Young readers: Grade 7-9by 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