No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics

by Frederick J. Blue

Book Overview

No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who undertook the yeoman's work of organizing parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of issues related to slavery. They were a small but critical number of voices who, beginning in the late 1830s, battled the institution of slavery through political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132055
• ISBN13: 9780807132050
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"