Books by Stacey M. Robertson

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism.

Parker Pillsbury-one of the most important and least examined antislavery activists of the nineteenth century-was a man of intense contradictions. Was he a disruptive eccentric who lashed out at authority (proclaiming Lincoln the worst president in...