Bøker av James Brewer Stewart

Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870 - the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery.

Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the powerful, deeply rooted, and organized private interest group within the United States. This title explains how a small group of radical activists, the abolitionist movement, played a pivotal role in turning American politics against this formidable system.