All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of SlaveryW. W. Norton & Company, 17 Μαΐ 2008 - 768 σελίδες "Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston Globe Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison's times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance. Finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction. |
Περιεχόμενα
CHAPTER TWO The Art and Mystery of Printing | |
BOOK | |
CHAPTERELEVEN A Universal Emancipation from | |
CHAPTER TWELVEThe Editor as Ishmaelite | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Garrisonized to the Backbone | |
A HEAVENLY RACE DEMANDS THY ZEAL | |
CHAPTEREIGHTEEN The Mathematics of Justice | |
Reference Notes | |
CHAPTER SIX A New England Mechanic | |
CHAPTER SEVEN Scatter Tracts like Raindrops | |
CHAPTERNINE The Most Eventful Year in My History | |
Denounced Resisted | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE John Brown Has Told Us the Time | |
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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery Henry Mayer Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008 |
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery Henry Mayer Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2000 |
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery Henry Mayer Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1998 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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