The color of abolition : how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation
How a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation
Printer Garrison learns his trade -- Manager Weston Chapman comes of age -- Garrison will be heard -- The enslaved write their history -- Frederick Douglass's history in slavery -- Frederick Douglass's escape -- David Walker appeals and Garrison hears -- Starting the black and white antislavery societies -- A national movement emerges -- The Liberator will be read -- Maria Weston Chapman takes the reins -- Antislavery on the march -- Moral Garrison splits with the politicos -- Douglas joins Garrison -- The Façade and the cracks in the Alliance -- Political abolition pulls on Garrisonians -- The cracks widen -- Douglass writes and Garrison publishes -- Frederick Douglass, international superstar and publisher -- Slave power rises and abolition power rises -- The private lives of public activists -- Compromise makes conflict worse -- Douglass recruits the Constitution -- The political divorce -- The personal divorce --