Crisis, Reaction, Revolution, Emancipation: What activists in the 2020s can learn from the struggles against slavery in the 1850s
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20*In the 1850s, as in the 2020s, racial capitalism seemed to enjoy ever greater triumphs, as pro-slavery forces expanded the protections of human bondage granted from the beginning by the US Constitution. How did the left face these problems in the 1850s?