The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement - American Abolitionism and Antislavery

175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography. In this first expansive study of Morris’s life and contributions, David Crago argues that historians have wrongly marginalized Morris’s role in the early antislavery movement.