Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840 by Ratner, Lorman - 1968

NY: Basic Books. Good in Good dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, jacket . scuffed.. 1968. Hardcover. Index, bibliography. "It is often forgotten that those who sought the total abolition of slavery in American society were almost as unpopular in the free North as in the slaveholding South. This penetrating study of anti-abolitionist northern sentiment shows for the first time the extent of popular hostility to antislavery between 1831 and 1840." (front jacket flap) ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages .