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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1080.
By 1861, William Lloyd Garrison’s public image had progressed from that of impulsive fanatic to one of widely respected and influential abolitionist. As editor of The Liberator and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he was the acknowledged spokesman for radical antislavery opinion.
Garrison was profoundly disturbed by the advent of war. In his correspondence, he kept military events at a distance, focusing on the morality of the conflict, an issue made the more poignant by his eldest son’s enlistment in the 55th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863—the same year that his wife suffered a paralytic stroke. Gradually he became ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674526655
SKU
V9780674526655
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99-1
About William Lloyd Garrison
Walter M. Merrill was Professor of English at Drexel University.
Reviews for The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
More than anything else, Volume V underscores the broad culmination of Garrison’s antislavery career. But it also reveals a number of fascinating particulars about the man… Walter Merrill has done a masterful job of editing…annotations for the letters in Volume V are frequent and comprehensive.
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