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Article: American Abolitionists.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2004
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American Abolitionists. By Stanley Harrold. (New York: Longman, 2001. Pp. 170. $11.95.)
The author of this study looks at American abolitionists as "contentious, dedicated, often inconsistent, and intensely interesting reformers," with a strong moral commitment to ending slavery and bringing equal rights to African Americans (4). Stanley Harrold argues that blacks, both slave and free, were important figures in defining resistance to slavery and in developing the abolitionist movement, a biracial movement that included both women and men. Abolitionists became increasingly radical in their ideology and practice by the 1840s, often influenced by slave ...