The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform, Paperback - W. Caleb McDaniel

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At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

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