The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power

With extracts from speeches by John Q. Adams before congress and editorials from the New York Tribune this book documents the feeling and desire to abolish slavery in the United States before Lincoln. Filled with pictures from the Library of Congress on how America's politics dealt with slavery. Also, includes picures of the Emancipation Proclamation and how the slaves responded to the reading of the document.

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.(Wikipedia)