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Terry Edmonds

Terry Edmonds is the former chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. A member of the Washington Monthly Board of Directors, he was a 2021 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) fellow and currently serves as a senior editor on the ALI Social Impact Review.
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Emancipation Relocation

by Terry Edmonds

In 1848, at a time when Black families were routinely ripped apart and Black bodies were bought and sold in public squares as chattel, a Black man and his mixed-race wife pulled off one of the most daring and ingenious feats of self-emancipation imaginable. Defying conventions of race, class, and gender, William and Ellen Craft […]