Independent Review, September 22nd, 2000
All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery By Henry Mayer New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 707. $32.50, cloth; $18.95, paper. No one attacked the black slavery of the southern states with greater vehemence than a group of young, radical abolitionists who burst upon the American landscape in the early 1830s. Exasperated at the betrayal of the revolutionary promise that all forms of human bondage would disappear in this new land of liberty, and marshaling all the evangelical fervor of the religious revivals then sweeping the country, they demanded no less than ...
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