Angry Abolitionist (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jules Archer
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1805–1879
- Setting: Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts; and Baltimore, Maryland
- Principal Characters: William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy, John Greenleaf Whittier, Isaac Knapp, Lyman Beecher, Arthur, Samuel May, Wendell Phillips
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Social reform, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Newspapers, Biography, Society of Friends or Quakers
- Locales: Boston, MA, Baltimore, MD, Newburyport, MA
Form and Content
In Angry Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison, Jules Archer allows the young adult reader to recognize Garrison’s immense contribution to the cause of freeing the slaves and his refusal to submit either to public pressure or to factional opposition within the American Anti-Slavery Society itself. He ensured that truth and a higher Christianity was served, not only in guaranteeing the rights of African Americans but also in awakening society to other injustices and hypocrisies that served profit. Archer traces the abolitionist movement from its...
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