A Blog Posting by Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 5th, 2018.
As I spend time with family in the Boston area, I’m no more than a mile away from what was once known as “Harmony Grove,” where the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society celebrated the Fourth of July with picnics and rallies for over twenty years – from 1846 to 1865.
Later this week, we’re going to try to find the very spot in 1854 where William Lloyd Garrison, one of the nation’s leading abolitionist voices, held up a copy of the U.S. Constitution and lit it on fire. Notably, it wasn’t the first time that the Abolitionists had burned the Constitution. In fact, they openly referred to it as a “covenant with death.” MORE...