num_pages: 256
description: Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America. Revealing the wisdom and na veté of the crusaders' convictions and examining the social bases for their actions, Stewart demonstrates why, despite the ambiguity of its ultimate victory, abolition has left a profound imprint on our national memory.
language: English
title: Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
titlecomplete: Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
characters: Elizur Wright, Salmon P. Chase, Gerrit Smith, James G. Birney, Wendell Phillips, Lewis Tappan, Joshua Leavitt, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Arthur Tappan, Charles Sumner, Theodore Dwight Weld, Joshua Reed Giddings
genres: American History, War, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Hill and Wang