The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement

by David C. Crago

More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted to him. In this first expansive study of Morris's life and contributions, David C. Crago persuasively argues that historians have wrongly marginalized Morris's role in the early antislavery movement. Morris was the first member of the US Senate to defend abolitionist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606354639
• ISBN13: 9781606354636
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"