May, a Unitarian minister and early abolitionist, recalls the people and battles of the movement from its rise in the 1820s to the eve of the Civil War: Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison, the persecution of Prudence Crandall’s school for Black girls, mobs, conventions and the rescue of fugitives.
An insider’s account by one of the movement’s founders, warm and principled. Download the free EPUB.