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Upstate Institute hosts National Abolition Hall of Fame induction ceremony

By Upstate Institute on October 25, 2009

The induction ceremony of 19th-century abolitionists Theodore D. Weld, who co-wrote the authoritative American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, and Lewis Tappan, who worked to free illegally enslaved Africans on board the Amistad, was held on the Colgate campus, with support of the Upstate Institute. READ MORE