Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero by James Brewer Stewart

By James Brewer Stewart

Throughout the Civil battle period, no different white American spoke extra powerfully opposed to slavery and for the beliefs of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally well-known as "abolition's golden trumpet," Phillips grew to become the North's most generally hailed public lecturer, although he espoused rules such a lot considered as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality between races and sessions, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's learn resolves this seeming paradox through exhibiting how Phillips got here to own such outstanding rhetorical presents, how he used them to form the politics of his instances, and the way he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and private relationships.

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