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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stanley Harrold. Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D. C., 1828–1865. (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 280. Cloth $69.95, paper $24.95.

This is an excellent study of the antislavery struggle in the streets and back alleys of Washington, D. C. The book is exceptionally well constructed. The argument is clear and easy to follow, and the prose, while not elegant, is straightforward. The notes are ample and at the bottom of the page. The pictures may be the best feature of the book. There are twenty of them, scattered appropriately throughout the text, and each one is worth at least 750 words if not the proverbial thousand. Charles Torrey, for example, is described as a courageous but delicate man. One look at his picture and there is no doubt that the word "delicate" was well chosen.

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