| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform. By Bruce Laurie. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 340 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-84408-8. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-60157-2.)
Bruce Laurie's Beyond Garrison examines the relationships between the antislavery political parties and social reform movements in Massachusetts. Laurie pays particular attention to the drives for civil rights for African Americans and for a ten-hour work day, though issues such as nativism, temperance, and state-level political reform also receive substantial treatments. While focused on the Liberty and Free Soil parties, the book closes with a chapter on the state's antebellum Republican party.	1
Using densely argued prose and frequent historiographic commentary, Laurie seeks to change the focus of abolition studies from William Lloyd Garrison to the antislavery political parties. While Garrisonians condemned political participation, Laurie praises it as "an effective strategy ... not a naive plunge into a smarmy world of compromise and accommodation" (p. 5). In a convincing chapter, Laurie argues that the Liberty party passed significant civil rights legislation in Massachusetts. Working with African Americans, they secured passage of the "Latimer Law," which protected people accused of escaping slavery, and overturned a ban on intermarriage. They also helped concentrate public pressure against school and railroad segregation. The Liberty party, seen in this light, enacted legal changes that eluded the reach of moral suasionists.	. . .

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