Comegna Liberty Chimes

As a peace offering for the two sides of Rhode Island's bitter antislavery divide, Frances Whipple offers this ringing call for abolitionist union.

Rhode Island's "Dorr War" opened sharp wounds in the antislavery community. Whipple wanted to heal her community, and attack the real enemy.

Whipple's Liberty Chimers were a radical bunch, for sure--and she used that flame to ignite a deep and lasting opposition to the Slave Power.

We find two broad methods affecting the end of slavery: 1) absolute self-reliant independence by abolitionists, and 2) challenging the slave to rebel.

Before Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin, there was the early libertarian Frances Whipple and her story of "The Slave Wife".

In a poetry-centric set of "Chimes," our contributors implore their fellows: wake up already to the horrors of life under slavery.

In our editor's second contribution, a Muslim traveler remarks on the perversity of slaveholding and imperial republicanism.