Nicolas P. Wood
Nicolas Wood is an associate professor of history at Spring Hill College. His research and teaching interests center around the issues of slavery, abolitionism, race, religion, and politics in America from the colonial era through the Civil War. To learn more about Professor Wood’s writings and details about his field, visit his website or browse his latest publications below.
Latest Publications
Let the Oppressed Go Free
His first book, Let the Oppressed Go Free: The Revolutionary Generation of American Abolitionists, reveals how tenacious activism by Quakers,
African Americans, and antislavery evangelicals made abolitionism central to the American Revolution. It will be released in November 2025.
‘To Friends and All Whom It May Concerne’: William Southeby’s Rediscovered 1696 Antislavery Protest
A ‘ class of Citizens ‘ : The Earliest Black Petitioners to Congress and Their Quaker Allies
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