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Jun 4, 2024 · With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria’s writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.
- June 04, 2024
2 days ago · Finally and fatally there was abolitionism, the antislavery movement. Passionately advocated and resisted with equal intensity, it appeared as late as the 1850s to be a failure in politics. Yet by 1865 it had succeeded in embedding its goal in the Constitution by amendment, though at the cost of a civil war.
May 28, 2024 · At the end of last year, 23 states had abolished the death penalty, and others, like California, haven’t carred out executions in years, despite keeping capital punishment on the books.
- Josh Marcus
- 4 min
May 29, 2024 · Black Abolitionist Papers (Legacy) This link opens in a new window. A unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. The content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays.
- Teresa Slobuski
- 2020
5 days ago · Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, who was a leader in the movement to abolish the death penalty. She worked actively on behalf of both death row inmates and family members of murder victims. Learn more about Prejean’s life and career, including her books, notably Dead Man Walking (1994).
May 27, 2024 · Adams defended them as freemen before the Supreme Court in 1841 against efforts of the administration of President Martin Van Buren to return them to their masters and to inevitable death. Adams won their freedom.
1 day ago · Evolution of Lincoln's policies. As early as the 1850s, Lincoln was widely perceived as an abolitionist. [3] But in 1860, he was attacked as not abolitionist enough: Wendell Phillips charged that, if elected, Lincoln would waste four years trying to decide whether to end slavery in the District of Columbia. [4]
