ALL ON FIRE: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.(Review)(Brief Article)

Columbia Journalism Review | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

ALL ON FIRE: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY HENRY MAYER. ST. MARTIN'S PRESS. 707 PP. $32.50.

The Liberator, which never paid its own way, was nonetheless a successful newspaper; it never missed a weekly issue and never lost sight of its cause -- that slavery must end unconditionally, even at the price of splitting the Republic. With the end of slavery, it ceased publication, thirty-five years to the week after its editor made his famous declaration: "I WILL BE HEARD." That editor, of course, was William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), and Henry ...

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