The Atlantic was founded in 1857, primarily to forward the abolition of slavery, by a team of intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier, and now features articles on a variety …

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