ebooks To Petersburg with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of Levi Bird Duff; 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers by Levi Bird Duff; Jonathan E. Helmreich in History

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In the 1830s; the abolitionist movement gained remarkable momentum due in large measure to the establishment of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the work carried out by one of its most important leaders; Theodore Dwight Weld. One of Weld's most significant accomplishments was the recruitment of a group of key abolitionist agents; known as the "Seventy;" who worked to expand the reach of abolitionist thought and action and enlisted new members into the movement. This volume chronicles the founding; development; and mission of the American Anti-Slavery Society; the contributions of Weld; and the crusading efforts of the agents he assembled. With the most complete list to date of the identities of the Seventy; this work constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of the abolitionist movement.