Author:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Imprint:Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Descriptionxv, 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY: -- "I could bring them to reason": Garrison in 1835 and 1863 -- Beginning The Liberator -- From colonization to "immediate" abolition -- Abolition, politics, and violent means -- Slavery: the historical record -- Morality versus politics: strategies for abolition -- Garrison's punitive style: the language of abolition -- Garrison, Douglass, and racial prejudice -- Endings: Garrison in 1865 and after -- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS (grouped by decade): -- 1831-1840: the first decade of The Liberator: arguments for abolition -- 1841-1850: "No union with slaverholders!" -- 1851-1860: Decade of crisis: the coming of the Civil War -- 1861-1865: the final phase of The Liberator: Garrison and Lincoln -- APPENDICES: Portraits -- A Garrison chronology (1805-1879)
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Selected bibliography" (p. 197-198), and index.
