The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) lee June 18-July 1

June 18-July 1

The house has served as a museum for over a century

Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans

Release date: September 8

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) lee June 18-July 1Has there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has