Professor Kellie Carter Jackson with Lessons from Black Abolitionists

As the US becomes ever more divided, I spoke to Kelly Carter Jackson, the Michael and Denise Kellen 68’ Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Professor Carter Jackson studies slavery, abolitionism, and the Civil War, and is the author of the award-winning book, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. We…