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This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Wage Labor and Chattel Slavery
Abolition Addresses Labor
Land Monopoly, Universal Reform and Slavery
Voices of Labor on Slavery and Abolition
From the 1850s' Crisis to Civil War
Index
About the author
PHILIP S. FONER is Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University. He is the author of many books, including
The History of Black Americans (3 vols., Greenwood, 1975, 1983, 1983) and (with David Roediger)
Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (Greenwood, 1988). More recently, he compiled (with Daniel Rosenberg)
Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History (Greenwood, 1993).
HERBERT SHAPIRO is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is author of
White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery (1988) and has edited or co-edited several books, including
American Communism and Black Americans: A Documentary History, 1930-1934 (1991) and
Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History (1993).
