The anti-slavery crusade : a chronicle of the gathering storm
It's the rare history book that offers first-person knowledge combined with an understanding of the grander context in which the events depicted too place, but we have such a unique confluence in this 1919 book. Jesse May, born into a family of Midwest abolitionists and a Quaker noncombatant during the Civil War, grew up to become a respected historian and political scientist, and he brings his unusual perspective on slavery and abolition in America to this concise, clear-headed survey
Chronicles of America series, v. 28
ix, 245 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 21 cm.
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Geography of the crusade
Early crusaders
Turning-point
Vindication of liberty
Slavery issue in politics
Passing of the Whig Party
Underground railroad
Books as anti-slavery weapons
"Bleeding Kansas"
Charles Sumner
Kansas and Buchanan
Supreme Court in politics
John Brown
Bibliographical note
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress
"Abraham Lincoln edition."