| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Canada and the United States

Stanley Harrold. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2004. Pp. x, 246. $35.00.

Over the past decade, Stanley Harrold has produced some of the most thought-provoking scholarship on antebellum abolitionism. In The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861 (1995), he challenged historians to pay more attention to non-Garrisonians' assaults on southern slavery. In Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865 (2003), Harrold pictured Washington as a wellspring of abolitionist activity. In his new book, Harrold examines abolitionist speeches aimed directly at slaves during the pivotal decade of the 1840s. Focusing on three addresses, Harrold argues that abolitionists shifted their audience from northern whites to southern blacks. If the 1830s witnessed the first transitional phase of American abolitionism, Harrold states that the 1840s was a second, perhaps even more important era of transformation, with abolitionists rethinking everything from the nature of political activism to the meaning of violent tactics. Indeed, already by the 1840s he sees an abolition movement struggling between its "peaceful past and violent future" (p. 4).

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