All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
All on Fire won the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize and the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Henry Mayer's biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison's times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9781324006220
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- AbolitionismSlaveryAmerican history
Awards
- J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeWon(1999)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1998)
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