William Lloyd Garrison and the Humanitarian Reformers by Russel B. Nye - 1969

Boston, MA: Little Brown. 1955. Softcover. 0316617369 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Edgewear. ; Library of American Biography; Trade PB; 215 pages .

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1969. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 7 1/2. 215 Pages Indexed. Minor cover edge wear and cover and first few pages have slightly upturned corners. No marks or stamps on this straight tight book. Slavery challenged the mounting tide of reform sentiment that spread through the United States after 1820. Earnest men and women began to devote their lives to the suppression of the intolerable evil of human slavery. The abolition movement grew rapidly. Behind this was the idea that men could effect change with moral ideas. Progress demanded that only that the corrupting elements be removed by reforms --- abolition, universal education, temperance and a host of other issues that absorbed the energies of Americans from 1820 to 1860. William Lloyd Garrison was intimately associated with all of these ideas. Contents in Seven Chapters: My Name Shall Be Known, I Will Be Heard, Ours Is a Moral Crusade, We Have Made Clean Work, No Union with… Read More

Little Brown & Co (T), 1969-06. Paperback. Good.