[Vision2020] Some more books on slavery and abolitionism

[Edward Sebesta]

1. "All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery,"
St. Martin's Press, by Henry Mayer.

2. "Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States
Congress," by William Lee Miller, Knopf press. 

This book may not seem very interesting, but it is quite dramatic in
parts as John Quincy Adams, uses his wits to skewer and enrage the
slaveholding members of Congress. 

Perhaps Moscow, Idaho should celebrate his birthday. 

3. "The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's
Boston" by Albert J. Von Frank, Harvard University Press. Burns was a
fugitive slave captured in Boston, and people tried to break him out of
jail. The president of the United States sent troops and a ship to
return Burns to slavery. The author is a professor at Washington State
University. Perhaps he can speak in Moscow?

4. "The Slave Trade" by Hugh Thomas, Simone and Schuster. Briefly starts
with ancient and medieval times and then the modern slave trade starting
in roughly the 14th century. 

5. "Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation," by John Hope Franklin and
Loren Schweninger, Oxford University Press. It isn't the happy
plantation that some suggest. 

I think everyone could purchase at least one book for themselves to
celebrate the day of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ed Sebesta