Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America by Leonard L. Richards

Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America

Leonard L. Richards

208 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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This book identifies the anti-abolitionists in the northern states and examines what motivated them. In the 1830's riots flared up in many northern cities. In Utica, NY; New York City, Boston, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, to...

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