By Anna Stegeman The fight against slavery in the Civil War era boasts many heroes–Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many more brave men and women. But Robert M. Copeland and D. Ray Wilcox in their book A Candle Against the Dark, argue that one small group of people, largely forgotten in the pages of history, played a consequential part in the abolitionist movement. … Continue reading A Candle Against the Dark – Book Review