Wendell Phillips, Liberty's Hero

by James Brewer Stewart

Book Overview

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet", Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807112577
• ISBN13: 9780807112571
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.