When Theodore Roosevelt dismissed the abolitionists as hysterical and unimportant, John Hume, who had joined their cause as a young man, wrote this reply. He describes who they were, the prejudice and violence they faced, the political situation of the 1840s and 1850s, and pioneers such as Salmon P. Chase, drawing on his own memories from 1830 to 1864.
A spirited first-hand defence of the antislavery movement, valuable for students of the Civil War era. Download the free EPUB.