All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of salvery / Henry Mayer

By:

Mayer, Henry [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: United States of America : St. Martin's Griffin, c1998Description: xxi, 707 pages : illustration ; 24 cmISBN:

0312253672

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LOC classification:

E 449 .M39 1998

Contents:

Preface -- Book One Awake My Soul -- Book Two Stretch Every Nerve -- Book Three And Press With Vigor On -- Book Four A Heavenly Race Demands Thy-Zeal -- Book Five And An ImmortalCrown -- Reference Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary: "In All on Fire, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) emerges as an American hero, arguably on par with Abraham Lincoln, who forced the nation to confront the explosive issue of slavery. Mayer maintains that Garrison, a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement. Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th-century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams,and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mayer's consequential biography will be read for generations to come."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC E 449 .M39 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000002654

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In All on Fire, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) emerges as an American hero, arguably on par with Abraham Lincoln, who forced the nation to confront the explosive issue of slavery.
Mayer maintains that Garrison, a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement.
Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th-century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams,and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mayer's consequential biography will be read for generations to come."

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