Garrison, William Lloyd | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Barnes, Gilbert Hobbs. The Antislavery Impulse, 1830-1844, pp. 55-170. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1933.
Presents a revisionist judgment of the Garrison legend, maintaining the Garrison's role in the anti-slavery movement was largely that of a fanatical agitator whose real impact was negligible.
Browne, Stephen H. “Encountering Angelina Grimké: Violence, Identity, and the Creation of Radical Community.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 82, no. 1 (February 1996): 55-73.
Close analysis of a letter written by Angelina Grimké to Garrison regarding the symbolic uses of violence in the creation of a public identity allied to the abolitionist cause.
Dillon, Merton L. “The Abolitionists: A Decade of Historiography, 1959-1969.” Journal of Southern History 35, no. 4 (November 1969): 500-22.
Surveys a decade of critical reinterpretations of Garrison and other...
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