num_pages: 707
description: In All on Fire, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) emerges as an American hero, arguably on par with Abraham Lincoln, who forced the nation to confront the explosive issue of slavery.Mayer maintains that Garrison, a self-made man of scanty formal education who founded and edited the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, not only served as the catalyst for the abolition of slavery, but inspired two generations of activists in civil rights and the women's movement.Through Garrison, tragically torn between pacifism and abolitionist advocacy, we also meet a rich pageant of great 19th-century historical figures, including Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams,and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mayer's consequential biography will be read for generations to come.
language: English
title: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
titlecomplete: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
characters: William Lloyd Garrison
genres: American, History, American History, 19th Century, American Civil War, Race, Politics, Civil War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 196
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Silver), awardedAt: 915177600000
name: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: St. Martin's Press