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Author Mayer, Henry, 1941-2000.

Title All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery / Henry Mayer.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  322.44 G193Bma 1998    ---  Lib Use Only
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.7114 May    ---  Available
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.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0312187408
9780312187408

 
    
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