the root and the branch: working-class reform and antislavery, 1790-1860

＂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＂--

Sean Griffin is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States and has taught widely at the City University of New York, most recently at Baruch College.