This book compares the movement to abolish slavery in pre-Civil War America with the contemporary movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States. The purpose of this comparative study is to set out what today's death penalty abolitionists can learn from the successes and failures of those who worked to abolish slavery. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to compare legal and political efforts to abolish slavery and the death penalty. Further, since lawyers and politicians respond to the public mood, and vice versa, attention is also paid to the cultural and social conditions in...
This book compares the movement to abolish slavery in pre-Civil War America with the contemporary movement to abolish the death penalty in the United ...
