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Abolitionists
Episode 8: The Abolitionists
Long before the first shots of the Civil War, a small but determined group of Americans was fighting to end slavery, and they weren’t willing to wait. This week, Mrs. Shirley and Mr. Connor dig into the abolitionist movement: who joined it, what they risked, and how a cause supported by only a fraction of the country helped change its course.
We start with the people who resisted slavery from the very beginning: enslaved men and women who broke tools, slowed their work, escaped, and even used music to pass messages. Then we follow the stories of Harriet Tubman…
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