The bold Brahmins; New England's war against slavery, 1831-1863.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Dutton, 1961.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 318 p. illus. 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • E449 .L12
Contents:
Garrison's bloody year : 1835 -- Seeds of violence : the Constitution -- Conspiracy of silence : 1820-1831 -- Mobs and mad women : 1833-1838 -- The Grimké sister : southern belles on a rampage -- Boston rebels and Martyrdom of Lovejoy : 1837 -- John Quincy Adams : "Mad man from Massachusetts" : 1831-1848 -- Torrey and proper price of liberty : 1841-1846 -- Slave hunt in Boston : the come-outers shake the walls : 1842-1844 -- The political plunge : liberty and free soil parties : 1840-1848 -- Parkers "Law" and the crises of 1850 -- Black squall of Boston : the Vigilance Committee and Shadrach rescue : 1851 -- A top eye open" : Uncle Tom and the capture of Thomas Sims, 1851-1852 -- Summer and Kansas : New England battleground : 1853-1856 -- The Reverend Storms the Court House, Boston : May 14, 1854 -- Senate blood and ruffian blood : 1856 -- John Brown and the Boston plotters : 1857-1863 -- Jubilee year and the Puritan radicals : 1860-1863 -- End of an epoch : Robert Gould Shaw : Puritan and the ramparts, July 18, 1863.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Garrison's bloody year : 1835 -- Seeds of violence : the Constitution -- Conspiracy of silence : 1820-1831 -- Mobs and mad women : 1833-1838 -- The Grimké sister : southern belles on a rampage -- Boston rebels and Martyrdom of Lovejoy : 1837 -- John Quincy Adams : "Mad man from Massachusetts" : 1831-1848 -- Torrey and proper price of liberty : 1841-1846 -- Slave hunt in Boston : the come-outers shake the walls : 1842-1844 -- The political plunge : liberty and free soil parties : 1840-1848 -- Parkers "Law" and the crises of 1850 -- Black squall of Boston : the Vigilance Committee and Shadrach rescue : 1851 -- A top eye open" : Uncle Tom and the capture of Thomas Sims, 1851-1852 -- Summer and Kansas : New England battleground : 1853-1856 -- The Reverend Storms the Court House, Boston : May 14, 1854 -- Senate blood and ruffian blood : 1856 -- John Brown and the Boston plotters : 1857-1863 -- Jubilee year and the Puritan radicals : 1860-1863 -- End of an epoch : Robert Gould Shaw : Puritan and the ramparts, July 18, 1863.