Antislavery Vanguard

The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "e;meddlesome fanatics"e; is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this re-examination of thee abolitionists, the harsh, one-sided judgment that they were men blind to their own motives, to the needs of the country, and even to the welfare of the slaves, and that their self-righteous fury did much to bring ...