No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) [Paperback]

Frederick J. Blue (Author)

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Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World | Publication Date: September 2006

No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics—those who undertook the yeoman's work of organizing parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of issues related to slavery. They were a small but critical number of voices who, beginning in the late 1830s, battled the institution of slavery through political activism. Frederick J. Blue provides an in-depth account of the trials and accomplishments of eleven men and women who, in the face of great odds and powerful opposition, insisted that emancipation and racial equality could only be achieved through the political process: Alvan Stewart, a Liberty party organizer from New York; John Greenleaf Whittier, a Massachusetts poet, journalist, and Liberty activist; Charles Henry Langston, an Ohio African American educator; Owen Lovejoy, a congressman from Illinois; Sherman Booth, a journalist and Liberty organizer in Wisconsin; Jane Grey Swisshelm, a journalist in Pennsylvania and later Minnesota; George W. Julian, a congressman from Indiana; David Wilmot, a congressman from Pennsylvania; Benjamin and Edward Wade, a senator and a congressman, respectively, from Ohio; and Jessie Benton Frémont of Missouri and California, wife of the Republican presidential nominee. Their stories, brought together in this comparative biographical study, enrich our understanding of the political crisis over slavery that led to the Civil War. AUTHOR BIO: Frederick J. Blue is a professor of history emeritus at Youngstown State University, where he taught from 1964 to 2002. He is the author of the award-winning biography Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics and Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North, among other books. He lives in Redmond, Oregon.

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Frederick J. Blue is a professor of history emeritus at Youngstown State University and the author of the award-winning biography Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics, among other books. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 301 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr (September 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807132055
• ISBN-13: 978-0807132050
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,831,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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