| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xvi, 301 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-8071-2976-3.)
Most studies of abolitionists examine extremists who rejected political engagement and who instead advocated a hyper-morality within an individualist context. Frederick J. Blue has instead turned to those abolitionists and antislavery individuals who opted for a political solution; Blue's purposes are to understand their motivations, their political philosophies, and their public appeal. He investigates eleven individuals who were associated with the Liberty party, the Free Soil party, and then the Republicans, offers a chapter on each of them, and then concludes with an assessment of their aggregate characteristics. His book is well written and informative; it should serve as a good reference tool for historians and be a guide to the topic of political antislavery for undergraduates.	1
The individuals Blue researches are Alvan Stewart, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Langston, Owen Lovejoy, Sherman M. Booth, Jane Swisshelm, George Washington Julian, David Wilmot, Benjamin and Edward Wade, and Jessie Benton Frémont. Many of these persons are well known, and often Blue covers territory already reconnoitered. The chapters on Stewart, Langston, Booth, Swisshelm, Wilmot, and the Wades nevertheless provide new information and give more perspective on these people than the older sources (in some cases, nonexisting sources). Blue presents his material in a narrative fashion, so each chapter is a mini-biography.	. . .

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