Apostles of Equality: The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War
Unearthing decades worth of personal archives and accounts of Birney and his family, Rogers has penned a supremely comprehensive book.The work is not only the biography of an unsung figure in the antislavery crusade; it is an illuminating exploration of less conventional paths to the abolitionist cause.--Alexander Heffner, Grand Rapids (MI) PressRogers treated the subject of slavery and those who fought against it as a vibrant, ongoing news story rather than a stodgy thesis.