Many thanks to @myhnn.bsky.social for publishing this insightful excerpt of Michael E. Jirik's "Dissenting Forces," focusing on the pushback student abolitionists faced around the country in the nineteenth century. Check it out here!

Learn about the history of enslaved people and abolitionists who fought racism on college campuses in our new release: "Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning" by Michael E. Jirik. Find out more:

Here’s an interview I did about it with James Devitt : www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Very grateful to share that my book Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought is now out with NYU press nyupress.org/978147983661...