| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Frederick J. Blue. No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics. (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 301. $54.95.

In the decades before the American Civil War, the antislavery movement was wracked with controversy over many issues, most notoriously women's rights and the decision of some abolitionists to embrace political tactics. Historians have produced a number of monographs that study divisions among abolitionists over questions of the worth of political activity, the decision to form a third party, and the necessity for compromise. Frederick J. Blue's volume instead purports to find a "remarkable unity and commonality of purpose" (p. 4) among those who used the political system to attack slavery. Blue organizes his study around the minibiographies of nine men and two women: Alvan Stewart, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Henry Langston, Owen Lovejoy, Sherman M. Booth, Jane Grey Swisshelm, George Washington Julian, David Wilmot, Benjamin and Edward Wade, and Jessie Benton Frémont.

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