The Massachusetts South Shore Against Slavery

Celebrate America250 & Juneteenth with us this month at the TCPL!

The Massachusetts South Shore Against Slavery by Mark R. Schneider discusses how abolitionists and antislavery activists on the South Shore opposed the spread of slavery from 1830-1860. The presentation includes appraisals of prominent South Shore figures such as Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams, as well as lesser-known abolitionists Samuel J. May and Maria Weston Chapman. Black abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Charles Lenox Remond, Lunceford Lane and others all spoke in south shore Massachusetts, a center both of abolitionist activity and also conservative compromise.

Mark R. Schneider is the author of Boston Confronts Jim Crow, We Return Fighting: The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age, and biographies of Congressmen Joe Moakley and Gerry Studds. He is a retired professor of American History, having taught at Tufts and Suffolk Universities. He is currently working on a new book to be released in 2027.

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