https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mymcpl/rss/search?query=%22Abolitionists%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&searchType=subject&origin=core-catalog-explore&page=2&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 21:18:57 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4400002https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4400002Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4400002110DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781531715069/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=o1348615581&upc=841887046817https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4069647https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4069647Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4069647110BKUnheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolitionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143136088/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=1176508702https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3936306https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3936306Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3936306110LPRINTJohn Brown, Abraham Lincoln And The Struggle For American Freedomundhttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593295373/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=1199114726https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3934776https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3934776Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3934776110BKJohn Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedomenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385544009/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=1136964793From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.

John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test.

The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.]]>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5216155https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5216155Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5216155980EBOOKJohn Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedomenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385544016/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3854355https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3854355Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3854355110BKThe Life and Times of Harriet Tubmanenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982139599/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=1125984028https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3735512https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3735512Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3735512110BOOK_CDProphet of Freedomenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508265672/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=1052785413https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3634386https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3634386Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3634386110BKSelf-made Manenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781944424855/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3716430https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3716430Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3716430110BKProphet of Freedomenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416590316/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *

"Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.

Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights.

In this "cinematic and deeply engaging" (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. "Absorbing and even moving...a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's" (The Wall Street Journal), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. "David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass...a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century" (The Boston Globe).

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Time.]]>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3962221https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3962221Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3962221980EBOOKProphet of Freedomenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416593881/MC.GIF&client=mconpublib&type=xw12&oclc=https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3564897https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C3564897Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3564897110BKThe Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary 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