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AU - Blackett, Richard
AB - Photograph of Benjamin Quarles. Courtesy of Special Collections, Morgan State University FEa TUrED rEVIEW Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way This book was not reviewed by the AHR upon its original publication and its review now is part of the journal’s reckoning with racist aspects of its work and influence. Benjamin    Quarles. Black Abolitionists. Oxford: Black contributions to one of the great struggles in Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 310. American history. They were, he writes, abolition’s “different drummer.” I took that to mean Black abo - My first serious engagement with Benjamin Quarles litionists brought a different set of perspectives and occurred when I joined the Department of Black Stud- interests as well as a clear understanding that the ies at the University of Pittsburgh in early 1971. I had success of the movement depended on a cross-racial spent much of my time in graduate school researching alliance that, in the long run, would challenge other phases of the radical civil rights movement. In fact, I inequities. At the time, and in retrospect, I found knew little about the struggle of Black Americans in Quarles’s observation indisputable: that the move- the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Quarles was 
TI - Benjamin Quarles: He Showed the Way
JF - American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhad495
DA - 2024-03-13
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