A Black Abolitionist and Barbecue Diplomacy
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: May 6, 2010
Mention American abolitionists and David Ruggles rarely comes to mind. In “David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City” (University of North Carolina Press, $30), Graham Russell Gao Hodges goes a long way toward rectifying that oversight. Ruggles published what might have been the first black periodical in the country, sheltered a fugitive slave named Frederick Washington Bailey — later Frederick Douglass — at his home on Lispenard Street in Lower Manhattan, and led a committee that helped save more than 600 escaped slaves.
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