William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred (The David Brion Davis Series)

William Lloyd Garrisons historical significance and legacy remain fiercely contested, and the two hundredth anniversary of his birth provides a propitious time to reassess the life of the man who helped to make slavery an inescapable moral issue.Steven Mintz, Columbia University|William Lloyd Garrisons historical significance and legacy remain fiercely contested, and the two hundredth anniversary of his birth provides a propitious time to reassess the life of the man who helped to make slavery an inescapable moral issue.-Steven Mintz, Columbia University|William Lloyd Garrison has a special and continuing meaning in the American imagination. This book raises significant questions about his life, tactics, and commitment that still resonate in the body politic.Robert H. Abzug, University of Texas at Austin|William Lloyd Garrison has a special and continuing meaning in the American imagination. This book raises significant questions about his life, tactics, and commitment that still resonate in the body politic.Robert H. Abzug, University of Texas at Austin|William Lloyd Garrisons historical significance and legacy remain fiercely contested, and the two hundredth anniversary of his birth provides a propitious time to reassess the life of the man who helped to make slavery an inescapable moral issue.Steven Mintz, Columbia University| William Lloyd Garrisons historical significance and legacy remain fiercely contested, and the two hundredth anniversary of his birth provides a propitious time to reassess the life of the man who helped to make slavery an inescapable moral issue.Steven Mintz, Columbia University|William Lloyd Garrison has a special and continuing meaning in the American imagination. This book raises significant questions about his life, tactics, and commitment that still resonate in the body politic.-Robert H. Abzug, University of Texas at Austin|William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States. As the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator and cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Garrison spent most of his life arguing against slavery on strictly moral grounds. This engrossing-book presents six essays that reevaluate Garrisons legacy, his accomplishments, and his limitations. Eminent scholars and a distinguished journalist, Lloyd McKim Garrison, who is Garrisons direct descendant, reflect on Garrison as a political activist, an internationalist, an advocate of feminism, and more.--BOOK JACKET.| William Lloyd Garrison has a special and continuing meaning in the American imagination. This book raises significant questions about his life, tactics, and commitment that still resonate in the body politic.Robert H. Abzug, University of Texas at Austin

Author: Stewart, Prof. James Brewer

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 160

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 2008-10-07