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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2006
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No Taint of Compromise
Crusaders in Antislavery Politics

By Frederick J. Blue
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 301. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $54.95.)

In No Taint of Compromise, Frederick J. Blue applies a prosopographic analysis to antislavery politics in the antebellum era. Blue presents eleven portraits of antislavery political leaders, ranging from well-known figures, like John Greenleaf Whittier and David Wilmot, to such lesser-known activists as Alvan Stewart and Sherman M. Booth. The subjects are well-chosen and diverse, representing different regional, religious, and partisan backgrounds. Of special interest to readers of this journal may be Blue's chapter on George Washington Julian, the Quaker congressman from Indiana who was a member of the Free Soil party and a leader of the Radical Republicans from 1861–1871. No Taint of Compromise also includes two women among its portraits (Jane Grey Swisshelm and Jessie Benton Frémont), as well as a black political leader (Charles Henry Langston). Their biographies challenge narrow assumptions about who participated in antebellum politics. Overall, Blue portrays individuals who have been the subject of little historical attention. By eschewing Lincoln and Sumner for Booth and Swisshelm, Blue guarantees that the book will make a contribution to the field. . . .
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