Cotton & Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868

· Univ of Massachusetts Press
Ebook
294
Pages

About this ebook

Abbott examines the activities and ideology of a group of Boston-area businessmen who promoted the cause of black freedom from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the election of Ulysses A. Grant as president. These men established a variety of voluntary associations to lobby against slavery and southern political influence, to recruit black soldiers for the Union army,and to aid former slaves during the early years of Reconstruction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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