The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

by William Lloyd Garrison

Book Overview

As early as 1842 Garrison advanced the idea of disunion, arguing that the Constitution was "a covenant with death." Distressed by Calhoun's signing of the annexation treaty for Texas, he prophesied that civil war was inevitable. Though plagued by illness and death in his immediate family throughout the years covered in this volume, Garrison drove himself to win supporters for the radical abolitionist cause. In 1846 he traveled to Great Britain, denouncing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674526627
• ISBN13: 9780674526624
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"