This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and ...

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Since 1857, when a group of radical abolitionists founded The Atlantic, the magazine’s editors and writers have tried to aim their work at the most important, and the most vexing, conundrums ...