Did you get a chance to watch
The Abolitionists last night on PBS? If you missed it, you can watch the first episode
here.
The series focuses on five nineteenth-century abolitionists–Frederick
Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and
Angelina Grimke–and their fight to end slavery in America. As I
watched the show last night I was reminded of the powerful role that
evangelicalism played in the abolitionist cause. Whatever one thinks
about the role of evangelicals in public life, it is clear that they
have been engaged in moral causes for a long time.
Read the rest
here.
