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Kellie Carter Jackson: Force and Freedom (2019, University of Pennsylvania Press)

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of …

Great work. Kellie Carter Jackson lays out the white abolitionists who dominate historical memory and corrects it by remembering the many Black activists who led the fight. The tug of war between the bullet and ballot was real, and this book helps us remember how often violence to combat violence was seen as a just and necessary tool.