The complete online text of Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete by John Greenleaf Whittier.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure. John Greenleaf Whittier was born on a farm near Haverhill, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1807, of poor Quake...

John Greenleaf Whittier's importance to America's cultural life, and the claim he makes on our remembrance, is at least twofold. In the first place his life was and remains a model of dedication to the twin principles of freedom and tolerance. In the lon...

Although John Greenleaf Whittier's reputation as a poet declined drastically in the twentieth century, his career is of continuing interest as an example of the writer functioning as a deeply committed reform activist. In the thirty-year struggle to abol...

Bernard Mandel, Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States. Introduction by Brian Kelly (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2007, originally published 1955) THIS IS A BOOK that deserves not to have been reprinted, at...

How was it that leading businessmen not known traditionally as apostles of radical change, were at times in the vanguard in what amounted to a revolution, the overthrow of the slavocracy? The short answer is that this overthrow strengthened the political and economic...