
All on Fire
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"Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston Globe
Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison's times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance. Finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction.More details
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Book One: Awake My Soul 1805-1830
- Chapter One: A Praying People
- Chapter Two: The Art and Mystery of Printing
- Chapter Three: A New Race of Editors
- Chapter Four: My Soul Was on Fire Then
- Chapter Five: In Baltimore Jail
- Book Two: Stretch Every Nerve 1831-1835
- Chapter Six: A New England Mechanic
- Chapter Seven: Scatter Tracts like Raindrops
- Chapter Eight: Ambassador of Abolition
- Chapter Nine: The Most Eventful Year in My History
- Chapter Ten: Brickbats in the Cause of God
- Book Three: And Press with Vigor on 1836-1844
- Chapter Eleven: A Universal Emancipation from Sin
- Chapter Twelve: The Editor as Ishmaelite
- Chapter Thirteen: Schism
- Chapter Fourteen: Garrisonized to the Backbone
- Chapter Fifteen: No Union with Slaveholders
- Book Four: A Heavenly Race Demands Thy Zeal 1844-1858
- Chapter Sixteen: Revolutions Never Go Backward
- Chapter Seventeen: Snap the Cords of Party
- Chapter Eighteen: The Mathematics of Justice
- Chapter Nineteen: Fugitive Slave Law: Denounced, Resisted, Disobeyed
- Chapter Twenty: If Kansas Is Free Soil, Then Why Not Carolina?
- Book Five: And an Immortal Crown 1859-1879
- Chapter Twenty-One: John Brown Has Told Us the Time
- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Covenant Annulled
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Eveiything Gravitates Toward Freedom
- Chapter Twenty-Four: My Vocation Has Ended
- Chapter Twenty-Five: I Miss Mr. Garrison
- Illustrations Insert
- Reference Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by Henry Mayer
- Copyright
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