The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm (Cosimo Classics History)

There is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurrection which occurred during the following August. It was however but natural that the South should associate the two events. A few utterances of the paper were fitted if not intended to incite insurrection. One passage reads: ... Rather than see men wearing their chains in a cowardly and servile spirit I would as an advocate of peace much rather see them breaking the heads of the tyrant with their chains. -from The Turning Point Its the rare history book that offers first-person knowledge combined with an understanding of the grander context in which the events depicted too place but we have such a unique confluence in this 1919 book. Jesse May born into a family of Midwest abolitionists and a Quaker noncombatant during the Civil War grew up to become a respected historian and political scientist and he brings his unusual perspective on slavery and abolition in America to this concise clear-headed survey. From an expurgated tidbit condemning slavery in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to the particular power of women in the antislavery movement Macys work is a brief but devastating argument about hypocrisy democracy and freedom in America in the mid-19th century. American political scientist JESSE MACY (1842-1919) was a professor at Grinnell College. He wrote extensively on political social and civic matters.