(green cloth, no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, a couple of lightly-bumped corners, some discoloration in the front gutter which appears to have bled through to the book's exterior (along the front hinge)] (American Reformers Series) Series The author had previously contributed a volume to this series on the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and considered the two volumes taken together to be his attempt "to give a comprehensive view of the forces, moral and political, which combined to achieve the downfall of slavery and the slave-power in the United States." In the author's view, "Garrison, more than any other man, embodied the moral forces of the conflict, the story of his life being essentially the history of the moral uprising against Slavery; while on the other hand Sumner was the impersonation of the political movement against the giant evil of the country."

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