This article explores how print culture facilitated abolitionism in Revolutionary Boston, suggesting new dynamics in advocacy.
Print culture enabled and undermined slavery in Revolutionary Boston. This article explores how white Bostonians navigated this tension in newspapers and pamphlets and how Black Bostonians entered print and legislative spaces as unprecedented interlocutors and abolitionists. A crisis of conscience in print gave rise to a New England abolition movement.
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