Log cabin Quote by Andrew Himes

“Especially in Appalachian east Tennessee, where there were few slaves and few slave owners, the evangelical revivals of the Awakening movement cradled the abolition…

— Andrew Himes

“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense of independence…

— Nancy Richmond

“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be…

— Bryan Stevenson

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin somewhere. I…

— David Mitchell

“As the Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others—were carried into the slave states of the South, into the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,…

— Andrew Himes

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation,…

— Susan Jacoby

“just at that time, the slightest manifestation of humanity toward a colored person was denounced as abolitionism, and that name subjected its bearer to…

— Frederick Douglass

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery.…

— Andrew Himes

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

— Kelsea Ballerini

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

— Nicholas D. Kristof