The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

by William Lloyd Garrison

Book Overview

The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive Slave Law, a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves back to angry masters but threatened the liberty of all free blacks. Despite such provocation. Garrison was an advocate of nonresistance during this period though he continued to advocate the emancipation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674526635
• ISBN13: 9780674526631
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"