Owen Lovejoy and the coalition for equality: clergy, African Americans, and women united for abolition

Abstract

In a post-1619-Project climate, some biographical historians are compelled to pour new critical stances into their lifelong research, often stretching previous insights or little-known back scripts to the point of banality. In some respects, Jane Anne Moore and William F. Moore’s Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality demonstrates both the rock of affirming African Americans and women in the story of abolitionism and the hard place, where critical race theory redundantly highlights dehumanization and disenfranchisement. In their introduction, the authors address this uncomfortable position (11):