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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison - No Union with the Slaveholders 1841-1849 V 3
William Lloyd Garrison
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 748 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 237 x 158. Weight in Grams: 1180.
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 the Free Church of Scotland for accepting funds from South Carolina. While in England he lectured often with Frederick Douglass; the two embarked the following year on a ... Read more
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 the Free Church of Scotland for accepting funds from South Carolina. While in England he lectured often with Frederick Douglass; the two embarked the following year on a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Number of pages
748
Condition
New
Number of Pages
750
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674526624
SKU
V9780674526624
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About William Lloyd Garrison
Walter M. Merrill was Professor of English at Drexel University.
Reviews for The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison - No Union with the Slaveholders 1841-1849 V 3
Walter M. Merrill is responsible for a first-rate job in presenting these central documents for the history of American reform in the 1840s. One of the more interesting developments in Garrison's career in this decade was his conversion to and then impassioned advocacy of the cause of disunionism.
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