Description
Title: Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers.
Author: David W. Bartlett
Publisher: Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, New York
Published: 1855
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 396
Catalogs: Abolition, New England, Biography
: Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. Boards are scuffed with some dirt and spotting, tips are crushed, and spine edges are worn. Interior is unmarked, including yellow pastedowns and flyleaf. Some foxing and tanning to pages. Contains illustrations of Elihu Burritt, Henry Ward Beecher, William H. Seward, Horace Greeley, N.P. Rogers, and Thurlow Weed Brown, protected with tissue. Contents also include biographies and essays on Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. H. Chapin, Theodore Parker, Horace Bushnell, John G. Whittier, Lyman Beecher, William Cullen Bryant, Joshua Giddings, Charles Finney, John Gough, Ichabod Codding, and William Lloyd Garrison. The introduction is addressed to Thomas Box of England, with reference to English agitators and reformers. The essays that follow chronicle the anti-slavery abolitionist efforts of the subjects, and occasionally women’s rights and temperance. Their approaches to abolition, and other causes, include religious teaching; oratory; editorial, fictional, and poetical writing; publishing; and political action. Hardcover, very good condition. 396 pages, octavo.
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