| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism. Ed. by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer. (New York: New Press, 2006. xxxiv, 382 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-56584-992-2. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56584-880-2.)

The effort to abolish slavery in the United States was highly controversial in its time, and widely shifting interpretations have marked its historiography. By the early 1980s the dominant view held that concerns other than slavery motivated white abolitionists and that racism and sexism undercut their commitment to social justice. The movement appeared to marginalize black abolitionists and to be essentially irrelevant to the sectional controversy that produced the Civil War. A reaction to that interpretation began almost immediately. Studies of abolitionists established their impact on churches, on the South, on the rise of feminism, and on the sectional conflict. Increasingly, historians have described African Americans (free and enslaved) as vital contributors to an interracial antislavery movement. Numerous books and articles have analyzed the role of abolitionist women. The underground railroad has reemerged as a topic of scholarly interest.

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