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Title: All on Fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer ISBN: 0-312-25367-2 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.81 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Garrison the Crusader
Comment: Rare is the book that well captures the temper and tone of the times as well as distilling the great arguments that have shaped our world. This book does exactly that and far more. This biography delves deeply into a man who has been reviled and scorned in both his era and ours. Admittedly, I too approached the book with the presumption of guilt for Garrison's complicity in setting the course of the nation toward our tragic civil war. My respect for the man, and the cause he championed, has grown immeasureably from reading this elegantly crafted work. Rich in detail and awesome in it's prose this is one of those books that one can truthfully say is hard to put down. Garrison the zealot, and Garrison the firebrand are well known stereotypes but they do little credit to a man who steadfastly and courageously fought for the equality of all races and the end of slavery. Equally appealing is Garrison the Christian who applied the tenants of his faith to the most confounding and perplexing issue that faced the new nation. Defiant in the face of death threats, and eager to confront all comers in debate, Garrison displayed a moral courage rare in the annals of history. This is the story not only of one man's struggle but also of social change and the abolition of a great evil. Much can be learned, and much enjoyment obtained, from this wonderful volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring story of a man committed to battle against sin
Comment: Garrison decided that slavery was wrong, and devoted his entire life to publishing The Liberator, a newspaper whose only mission was to end slavery. He did so, week after week, often without money, and occassionally despite violent attacks by pro-slavery forces. He refused compromise. He refused to accept "workable" solutions. Slavery was morally bankrupt, and he fought against it, using the power of words alone.
When he began his crusade, slavery was accepted, and most people thought it was here to stay. Garrsison was a voice crying in the dark. When he closed down The Liberator, slavery was over, and the vast majority of the country thought it was wrong.
Anyone who reads, anyone who fights for social justice, and certainly anyone who writes should read this book. It is hard to imagine anyone whose life reflects the axiom: "the pen is mightier than the sword" better than Garrison.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Union and the coming of disunion
Comment: This excellent biography of Garrison seems to unlock one of the enigmas of both abolition and the Civil War, where the attempt to preserve the Union led to the abolition of slavery. But we might backtrack to the generation of the heroic abolitionists, among them the completely consistent and unwavering Garrison whose platform on disunion is one of the key steps in the mystery of opposites here.
The tale is told in fine grain of a very remarkable one-pointed focus by one who did not compromise and yet outlasted all those who did. From his humble beginnings as an apprentice printer til the suspension of the Liberator after eighteen hundred issues in 1865 we have the portrait of one who brought about real social change, yet was almost marginalized near the end, as the harvest of his labours was achieved.
Even if we are secularists, we should tip our hats to these agitator Christians who had the presence of mind to see the obvious in a culture where everyohne else was out in left field and even the Northern states were racist and seened to resist every step of the way.
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Title: Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn by Thomas K. McCraw ISBN: 0674716086 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers ISBN: 0195085485 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism by Robert William Fogel ISBN: 0226256626 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall ISBN: 0520229193 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from the Liberator (Bedford Book in History and Culture) by William E. Cain, William Lloyd Garrison ISBN: 0312103867 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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