Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers.

Language: English

Published by Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, New York, 1855

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Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. Boards are scuffed with some dirt and spotting, tips are crushed, and spine edges are worn. Interior is unmarked, including yellow pastedowns and flyleaf. Some foxing and tanning to pages. Contains illustrations of Elihu Burritt, Henry Ward Beecher, William H. Seward, Horace Greeley, N.P. Rogers, and Thurlow Weed Brown, protected with tissue. Contents also include biographies and essays on Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. H. Chapin, Theodore Parker, Horace Bushnell, John G. Whittier, Lyman Beecher, William Cullen Bryant, Joshua Giddings, Charles Finney, John Gough, Ichabod Codding, and William Lloyd Garrison. The introduction is addressed to Thomas Box of England, with reference to English agitators and reformers. The essays that follow chronicle the anti-slavery abolitionist efforts of the subjects, and occasionally women's rights and temperance. Their approaches to abolition, and other causes, include religious teaching; oratory; editorial, fictional, and poetical writing; publishing; and political action. Hardcover, very good condition. 396 pages, octavo.…

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Title
Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers.
Author
David W. Bartlett
Publisher
Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, New York
Publication year
1855
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Item weight
1.3 pounds
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Roundabout Books is a bookstore for book people: an independent, locally-owned bookstore in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Our physical shop is located in the old Diamond-Electric Soap Factory at 85 Pierce Street, just two blocks off Federal Street in Greenfield. We offer an extensive, organized, and thoughtful collection of used and new books at excellent prices. We hope you will find our store welcoming and that our love of books shows through in our work. If you are here in-person, come wander and browse an expansive collection of all genres, including poetry, science, history, literature in translation, and university presses. Enjoy our historic industrial building transformed, and envisioned as accessible and environmentally sustainable for the future. Please stop in or give us a call if you have questions for us!…

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