Bylines

Peter Wirzbicki

All Articles Related to This Author

Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

Peter Wirzbicki

Viewing 1–2 of 2 written by Peter Wirzbicki

A political cartoon in which a king sitting on a litter carried by enslaved men rests his elbow on three skulls labeled Fugitive Slave Bill.

Transcendentalists Against Slavery

Why have historians overlooked the connections between abolitionism and the famous New England cultural movement?

by Peter Wirzbicki, David Moore via Mere Orthodoxy on February 9, 2022

Ralph Waldo Emerson Would Really Hate Your Twitter Feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.

by Peter Wirzbicki via Psyche on August 9, 2021

brought to you by

© Bunk History