American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times Into Reconstruction

by Stanley Harrold

This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics--petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians--and on their disruptions of slavery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942292
• ISBN13: 9780813942292
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"