Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin Classics) by Various,Mason Lowance

By Various,Mason Lowance

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This colleciton assembles greater than 40 speeches, lectures, and essays serious to the abolitionist campaign, that includes writing by way of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria baby, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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