| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxi, 707 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The author "demonstrates how Garrison inspired two generations of activists--female and male, black and white--to build a social movement that challenged the dominant assumptions of white supremacy and forced change upon a reluctant majority."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Awake My Soul 1805-1830 -- A Praying People -- The Art and Mystery of Printing -- A New Rage of Editors -- My Soul Was on Fire Then -- In Baltimore Jail -- Stretch Every Nerve 1831-1835 -- A New England Mechanic -- Scatter Tracts like Raindrops -- Ambassador of Abolition -- The Most Eventful Year in My History -- Brickbats in the Cause of God -- And Press With Vigor On 1836-1844 -- A Universal Emancipation from Sin -- The Editor as Ishmaelite -- Schism -- Garrisonized to the Backbone -- No Union with Slaveholders -- A Heavenly Race Demands Thy Zeal 1844-1858 -- Revolutions Never Go Backward -- Snap the Cords of Party -- The Mathematics of Justice -- Fugitive Slave Law: Denounced, Resisted, Disobeyed -- If Kansas Is Free Soil, Then Why Not Carolina? -- And an Immortal Grown 1859-1879 -- John Brown Has Told Us the Time -- The Covenant Annulled -- Everything Gravitates Toward Freedom -- My Vocation Has Ended -- I Miss Mr. Garrison. |
| Subject |
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
0312187408 |
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9780312187408 |
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