Here is a great narrative history of a key moment in the antislavery struggle. Told with narrative flair and a sense of drama, youEL will LOVE Tomek's book on the burning of Pennsylvania Hall. - Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of TechnologyThis is an engaging history of the events surrounding the burning of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, only days after the building opened. Tomek uses this act of mob violence (a "Legal Lynching") as a window into the city's debates over abolitionism and race in the 1830s and, more broadly, as a window into how the city's abolitionists were divided in how to pursue their goals. - J. Matthew Gallman, University of FloridaAn excellent book on abolitionism in antebellum Philadelphia. It is ideal for undergraduatesEL [and] tells a powerful story in a brief narrativeEL - Mark Elliott, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
