The story of Wendell Phillips: soldier of the common good
by Charles Edward Russell
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The extraordinary life and times of advocate and agitator Wendell Phillips is vividly represented in this comprehensive biography. Tracing Phillips's beginnings in Boston, Russell details the work of the "Soldier of the Common Good" as an abolitionist, his later efforts on behalf of freed slaves, and his advocacy for Native Americans.Tags
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Extremely sympathetic account of Wendell Phillips by a socialist author.
Regards Phillips' antislavery crusade as essentrially against the rich reactionaries, north and south, see Phillips as a soxcialist after the Civil War.
Regards Phillips' antislavery crusade as essentrially against the rich reactionaries, north and south, see Phillips as a soxcialist after the Civil War.
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- People/Characters
- Wendell Phillips
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Biography & Memoir
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- 973.8092 — History & geography History of North America United States The Gilded Age, Reconstruction, Spanish American War (1865-1901)
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- E449 .P5595 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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