Forceful Demands: Black Abolitionists and the Language of Violence

'Historian Kellie Carter Jackson explores the use of violence by Black abolitionists in the antebellum US - as a strategy of survival and solidarity between Black people, a forceful language in contrast to the half-measures of non-violent White abolitionists, and a model for oppressed people to win freedom from a violent system that denies their basic humanity. Carter Jackson is author of the book Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence from University of Pennsylvania Press.' -- This is Hell!