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Mayer, Henry, 1941-2000, author.

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

First edition.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

xxi, 707 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

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.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.

Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.

Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 634-678) and index.

National Book Award for nonfiction finalist, 1998

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, 1999

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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