All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery /

All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery / Henry Mayer.

The author "demonstrates how Garrison inspired two generations of activists--female and male, black and white--to build a social movement that challenged the dominant assumptions of white supremacy and forced change upon a reluctant majority."--Jacket.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayer, Henry, 1941-2000.
Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Garrison, William Lloyd, > 1805-1879.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Awake My Soul 1805-1830
  • A Praying People
  • The Art and Mystery of Printing
  • A New Race of Editors
  • My Soul Was on Fire Then
  • In Baltimore Jail
  • Stretch Every Nerve 1831-1835
  • A New England Mechanic
  • Scatter Tracts like Raindrops
  • Ambassador of Abolition
  • The Most Eventful Year in My History
  • Brickbats in the Cause of God
  • And Press With Vigor On 1836-1844
  • A Universal Emancipation from Sin
  • The Editor as Ishmaelite
  • Schism
  • Garrisonized to the Backbone
  • No Union with Slaveholders
  • A Heavenly Race Demands Thy Zeal 1844-1858
  • Revolutions Never Go Backward
  • Snap the Cords of Party
  • The Mathematics of Justice
  • Fugitive Slave Law: Denounced, Resisted, Disobeyed
  • If Kansas Is Free Soil, Then Why Not Carolina?
  • And an Immortal Crown 1859-1879
  • John Brown Has Told Us the Time
  • The Covenant Annulled
  • Everything Gravitates Toward Freedom
  • My Vocation Has Ended
  • I Miss Mr. Garrison.

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