About the Author

Timothy Patrick McCarthy teaches history and literature at Harvard University. He is the editor, with John C. McMillan, of The Radical Reader. John Stauffer teaches English and American civilization, also at Harvard. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men, won the 2002 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery.

Reviews

"So often maligned or misunderstood by historians, the abolitionists have only in the last generation or so begun to receive a fair hearing among scholars... theirs is the typical fate of American radicals People with the courage to fight the abuses of power and the privilege around them are rarely celebrated in their own time. - FROM PROPHETS OF PROTEST"