The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists

by Martin Duberman

Book Overview

The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "meddlesome fanatics" is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this re-examination of thee abolitionists, the harsh, one-sided judgment that they were men blind to their own motives, to the needs of the country, and even to the welfare of the slaves, and that their self-righteous fury did much to bring on a "needless war" is not completely reversed, but a more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691005524
• ISBN13: 9780691005522
• Release Date: April 1968
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.