Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms

Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.

“Kellie Carter Jackson constructs a bridge between slave rebellions and the armed self-defense of twentieth-century black radicals.”

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Kellie Carter Jackson slave rebellions of the early Republic and the armed self-defense and revolutionary violence of twentieth-century black radicals….