The Transformation of American Abolitionism
, by Newman, Richard S.- ISBN: 9780807849989 | 0807849987
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/2002
Newman traces the abolition movement's transformation from the American Revolution to 1830, showing how what began in late-18th-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform had by the 1830s become a radical, egalitarian mass movement based in Massachusetts.