Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America.

Ann Arbor, Michigan:: University of Michigan,.. Not illustrated. 2 volumes, spiral-bound galleys; 11 5 inches; pink stiff wrappers with title “Anti Slavery Movement” in ball-point on front covers Stapled to the inside of the front cover of Part One is the publisher’s précis of the book. Laid in is a short letter dated March 21, 1961, from Paul M. Angle, the Director of the Chicago Historical Society to the Rev. William S. Warford, at one time the Chaplain of the Illinois Statehouse: “Dear Bill. . .I am sending you a set of proofs of Dwight L. Dumond’s (truncated) Anti-Slavery Movement. Keep these to yourself for awhile [sic] since the book is not scheduled for publication until fall.”This white historian’s best known work; he was in the History Department of the University of Michigan and when he retired after thirty-five years. He remained active after his retirement teaching at Howard University. and in 1965/66 and in 1968/69 he taught American Institutions at Colgate.He was in disagreement with most of his colleagues, insisting that Lincoln knew from the very beginning that the slavery question could only be solved by outright war. He expressed this view in lectures while a visiting member of the faculty of University College, London, which was published in 1939 in the United States as The Anti Slavery Origins of the Civil War. (Inventory #: 3980)