The Abolitionist’s Journal

This chronicle persuasively speaks to how the past ripples through generations.'--Publishers Weekly

With compelling spiritual and historical resonance, The Abolitionist's Journal is a testament to the struggles and triumphs of a passionate, exemplary family.'--Foreword Reviews

The Abolitionist's Journal is without question a splendid achievement and a masterful addition to the literature of America's racial past and that past's resonance with the present day.'--Neil Henry, author of Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

A thrilling story of deep faith, courage, and sacrifice, Jim Richardson's memoir of his great-great-grandfather captures the quiet valor of an American hero most of us have never heard of.'--Ginger Rutland, author of the play When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story

In scripture, the prophets continuously challenged the people to remember the past, and God's part in it, in order to move forward into an unknown future. James Richardson's personal and compelling account of his abolitionist ancestors' experiences confronting slavery helps us to move past our convenient forgetfulness and take up the cause of justice in our own time.'--The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

The Abolitionist's Journal offers readers the opportunity to intimately understand the challenges faced by supporters of African American freedom during and after the Civil War. . . . By way of the journal of George W. Richardson, his great-great-grandson now shares the remarkable journey of this man and his multi-decade dedication to supporting African American religious and educational growth.'--Spencer R. Crew, coeditor of Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives