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The anti-slavery crusade : a chronicle of the gathering storm

Macy, Jesse 1842-1919 (Author).

Summary: It's 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.

Electronic resources

https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/detail/501069

Record details

Physical Description: print
ix, 245 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1919]

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Abraham Lincoln edition." Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: pages 233-235.
Formatted Contents Note:	Geography of the crusade -- Early crusaders -- Turning-point -- Vindication of liberty -- Slavery issue in politics -- Passing of the Whig Party -- Underground railroad -- Books as anti-slavery weapons -- "Bleeding Kansas" -- Charles Sumner -- Kansas and Buchanan -- Supreme Court in politics -- John Brown -- Bibliographical note.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also available online.