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In November 2011, I was preparing to do the funeral of Carlton Archer, a 15-year-old young man who had been shot to death. That was my 10th teenage funeral that year. I had to convince his parents, who were members of my church, to have the funeral here, even though they were afraid that the neighborhood gangs, seeing the young people from different neighborhoods, would show up and start trouble. My thinking: not at this church Something happened that day that changed my life forever. Down the street, gang members began shooting at the young people entering the church. With over 1000 people...

Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage--but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative third-party movement in American history and effectively reshaped political structures in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
As Corey M. Brooks explains, abolitionist trailblazers who organized first the Liberty Party and later the more moderate Free Soil Party confronted...