The Root and the Branch Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860

"Exceedingly well researched in an impressively wide range of source materials, The Root and Branch brings together histories of American antislavery and of nineteenth-century labor reform exceptionally well to show how these movements intersected more frequently and more meaningfully than is typically understood. By bringing together these movements so fully and extensively, this book offers an invaluable contribution to scholarship on both American antislavery activism and labor radicalism." (Corey Brooks, Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics)