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Polgar has provided a useful analysis of the complexities of the abolitionist and colonization movements in the early republic. Deeply researched and capacious in its use of both primary and secondary sources, Standard-Bearers of Equality is a painful reminder of a moment in America's history of slavery and racism and of paths and opportunities not taken. - Journal of Ecclesiastical History Polgar . . . here seeks to expand the breadth, depth, and length of what he terms the first abolition movement. . . . In accentuating the first movement abolitionist program's contributions, Polgar underscores the degree to which those who supported gradualist antislavery helped set the free North and slave South on the tortured road to civil war that ultimately abolished slavery and provided a blueprint for equal rights and citizenship for black Americans during Reconstruction and in 20th-century civil rights campaigns.--CHOICE With analytic subtlety as well as deep archival research, Polgar reveals how relatively privileged northern whites worked closely with blacks. . . . and shows that they required fearless, imaginative, and resolute political activism to overcome powerful proslavery interests.--Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books

"Polgar . . . here seeks to expand the breadth, depth, and length of what he terms ""the first abolition movement"". . . . In accentuating the first movement abolitionist program's contributions, Polgar underscores the degree to which those who supported ""gradualist"" antislavery helped set the free North and slave South on the tortured road to civil war that ultimately abolished slavery and provided a blueprint for equal rights and citizenship for black Americans during Reconstruction and in 20th-century civil rights campaigns.--CHOICE Polgar has provided a useful analysis of the complexities of the abolitionist and colonization movements in the early republic. Deeply researched and capacious in its use of both primary and secondary sources, Standard-Bearers of Equality is a painful reminder of a moment in America's history of slavery and racism and of paths and opportunities not taken."" - Journal of Ecclesiastical History With analytic subtlety as well as deep archival research, Polgar reveals how relatively privileged northern whites worked closely with blacks. . . . and shows that they required fearless, imaginative, and resolute political activism to overcome powerful proslavery interests.--Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books"

With analytic subtlety as well as deep archival research, Polgar reveals how relatively privileged northern whites worked closely with blacks. . . . and shows that they required fearless, imaginative, and resolute political activism to overcome powerful proslavery interests.--Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books Polgar . . . here seeks to expand the breadth, depth, and length of what he terms the first abolition movement. . . . In accentuating the first movement abolitionist program's contributions, Polgar underscores the degree to which those who supported gradualist antislavery helped set the free North and slave South on the tortured road to civil war that ultimately abolished slavery and provided a blueprint for equal rights and citizenship for black Americans during Reconstruction and in 20th-century civil rights campaigns.--CHOICE

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Paul J. Polgar is assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

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