Cory James Young, Ph. D.
historian of abolition & slavery in the american north
assistant professor of history at the university of iowa
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”
Frederick Douglass, Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857
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Rochester artist, Shawn Dunwoody, in the middle of painting Austin Steward on the column of a 490 overpass on West Main Street. Photo by Brian Sharp.
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