“This Most Atrocious Crusade Against Personal Freedom” Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of War
Affiliation:
1. Patrick T.J. Browne is a PhD candidate in History at Boston University. He is the former Executive Director of Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth and the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society. His dissertation focuses on the efforts of the US Sanitary Commission and other organizations to provide aid to Civil War veterans and their families during and in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Abstract
Abstract
This essay explores increasing organization among anti-abolitionists in Boston on the eve of the Civil War and the combination of mob violence and political tactics they employed in an attempt to silence abolitionists. This opposition did not fade away on its own but was actively shut down by abolitionists who knew how to navigate politics and public opinion.
Publisher
MIT Press - Journals
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History