Within the American antislavery movement, abolitionists were distinct from others in the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate

Within the American antislavery movement, abolitionists were distinct from others in the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate

The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented provocative speeches that, for the firs

This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement’s direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times t

A critique of American abolitionism after 1787, with emphasis upon the negative impact of the movement on the South and slavery. De Fontaine blames fanatic abol