Newman discusses abolitionism on podcast
Richard Newman, professor in the Department of History, was featured on the Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions Podcast discussing abolitionism, a global human rights movement during the 18th and 19th centuries aimed at ending slavery in the Atlantic world.
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