Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts

Authors

W. Caleb McDaniel

ISBN

978-0-19-537937-2

Price

$49.95

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

Exploring the Intersection of Memory and History

On October 4, 1859, abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips came not to praise Daniel Webster, but to bury him again. Though Webster had died in 1852, he still lived in infamy among abolitionists for having endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law ....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.13.3.16

Recommended Citation

McDaniel, W. Caleb (2011) "Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 13 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.13.3.16
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol13/iss3/32