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R.J.M. Blackett

R.J.M. Blackett

R.J.M. Blackett is a historian of the abolitionist movement whose books include The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and the Politics of Slavery and Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery. He is an emeritus historian at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stories from R.J.M. Blackett

Frederick Douglass once said, “Samuel R. Ward has left no successor among the colored men amongst us, and it was a sad day for our cause when he was laid low in the soil of a foreign country.”

Frederick Douglass Thought This Abolitionist Was a ‘Vastly Superior’ Orator and Thinker

A new book offers the first full-length biography of newspaper editor, labor leader and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward