Description: "This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery with the nation's first labor movement, Griffin shows how labor reformers made an invaluable contribution to the antislavery project"--
Brief description: Sean Griffin is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States and has taught at the City University of New York and the College of Charleston.
Review Quotes: "What few historians are successful in doing, Sean Griffin accomplishes masterfully: making sense of a complicated story by bridging studies in labor and antislavery and standing among those scholars . . . who have explored the relationship between slavery, antislavery, and free labor."-- "American Historical Review"