A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent

by Michael Thomas Smith

In 1856, Benjamin Hedrick broke with his white North Carolinian peers by taking an antislavery position on the question of the incorporation of the territories. This biography tells the story of how developed that position, the loss of his position as a professor of chemistry and his subsequent exil

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874138418
• ISBN13: 9780874138412
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 216 Pages