DOC Class Conflict; Slavery; and the United States Constitution by From Staughton Lynd in History

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This book; originally published in 1982; is an examination of antebellum abolitionism in the United States. Professor Friedman studies the abolitionists as individuals; delving into the psychology; sociology and group dynamics of the movement. He examines those 'immediatists' who; in contrast to gradualist circles of antislavery opinion; refused; as they saw it; to temporise with evil. He also explores the differences between the Boston and New York groups; assesses the role of the movement in the coming of the Civil War and develops an original view of feminist abolitionism.