Angry Abolitionist | Angry Abolitionist

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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

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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