Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer When Sarah makes a selfless

When Sarah makes a selfless sacrifice

Samuel Alexander Mudd

shaping the course of the Civil War

In early July 1864

Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) cup and saucer When Sarah makes a selflessby 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