The Abolitionists may have finished its run on PBS, but here at the Library of Virginia we're still discovering documents related to the antislavery movement. Today's Out of the Box features some of Virginia's attempts to silence abolitionists found in our local court records.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/01/30/commonwealth-of-virginia-versus-abolitionism/

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