Aware that Cameron was in Philadelphia again and believing that she was in "imminent danger, " Walker moved to Boston, the nation's hotbed of abolitionism.

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They were newcomers to abolitionism.

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This is a tension which, apart from occasional spasms such as 19th-century British abolitionism (which, interestingly, did not prevent Britain from supporting the Confederacy to keep the cotton flowing to the mills of Lancashire), not only is absent from other nations, but elicits cynical laughter from them.

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And when Douglass - in Douglas' day, most whites believed in theory that blacks were subhuman, yet they'd experienced Douglas' magic, his artistry, and they'd essentially shed their racism to the degree that they'd be converted to his cause of abolitionism or anti-slavery, and there are countless examples of that happening.

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