"Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston Globe Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry May

Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book.--William E. Cain, Boston Globe

In Henry Mayer's absorbing work, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) emerges as an American hero, arguably on par with Abraham Lincoln, who forced the nation to

Profiles the life and work of the abolitionist and journalist who published his beliefs about antislavery.