Betty Fladeland

Betty Lorraine Fladeland (1919–2008) was an American historian and author renowned for her works on the antislavery movement, including James Gillespie Birney: Slaveholder to Abolitionist (1955), Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation (1972), and Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization (1984) SIU News, Legacy Obituary. A distinguished professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, she helped establish the Black American Studies program, served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and received awards like the Delta Award for her contributions to understanding the fight against slavery Illinois Authors.