Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909.

The article focuses on Raymond James Krohn’s book *Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909*, which examines late-life memoirs of mostly white abolitionists reflecting on their antislavery activism during the post-Reconstruction era. Krohn argues that many white abolitionists shifted their attention away from racial justice toward other causes, contributing to the decline of the movement for Black equality, while Black abolitionists remained committed to continuing the struggle against racism. The book highlights tensions between white and Black abolitionists and challenges previous scholarship that emphasized continuity in white abolitionist activism after the Civil War. Krohn’s work underscores the importance of these memoirs as memory-building texts that reveal changing commitments to racial egalitarianism in the late nineteenth century.