Day: November 27, 2019

Abolitionists Challenge Slavery in America

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman On April 14, 1775, Anthony Benezet founded the first...

“We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers [European powers], to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peace and safety.” – President James Monroe from his “Monroe Doctrine” declaring further colonization by European powers in the Western Hemisphere a threat to the safety of the United States (1823)