| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828–1865. By Stanley Harrold. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xvi, 280 pp. Cloth, $69.95,ISBN 0-8071-2805-8. Paper, $24.95,ISBN 0-8071-2838-4.)
To subvert the slaveholding status quo, activists in the nation's capital filed court cases, petitioned Congress, plotted escapes of runaway slaves, and published exposés of slave treatment in Washington, D.C. More subversive than these specific tactics, Stanley Harrold argues, was cooperation of reformers across racial and gender lines. The book is an exquisitely researched case study and much more. Analyzing antislavery in the nation's capital city, Harrold weaves the national story of political controversy together with the social story of antislavery families and churches.	1
National debates and local alliances after 1828, Harrold shows, built on relationships and tactics developed by African Americans and Quaker allies in the Chesapeake region and particularly in Baltimore. Providing this background allows the reader to reevaluate the importance of "northern" antislavery initiatives relative to those of earlier and more obscure Chesapeake men, several serving as mentors to young William Lloyd Garrison. By placing antislavery activity in Washington at the center of the national story, Harrold corrects studies focused just on Garrison (or anti-Garrison) camps or just on activity in the northern "free" states.	. . .

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