Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform slavery In A Handsome Flogging: The

In A Handsome Flogging: The Battle of Monmouth

costing thousands of American lives

The unyielding sixth chapter of The Frontier Chronicles thrusts readers into the tumultuous prelude to the Civil War

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one of the most gruesome in American history

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform slavery In A Handsome Flogging: Theby Anne E. Marshall The nineteenth century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife wielding rabble rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite attempts on his life, he helped