Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil War

Susan E. Gallagher, associate professor of political science at UMass Lowell (retired), focuses on the history of inequality in American political thought. She is currently completing a biography of H. Ford Douglas, an anti-slavery orator who became one of the few Black soldiers to rise to the rank of captain and the only one to command his own unit during the Civil War:A ‘Black John Brown’: The Life and Legacy of H. Ford Douglas.