Enemies of Slavery contains a collection of people who fought injustice. The author treated each entry the same. Each began with the person’s name, the year of birth and death, and a famous quote. The quotes came from various sources. Some primary sources such as journals, diaries, newspapers, speeches, and one came from a novel that Stowe had written. The quote if followed by a brief explanation of how this person fought to combat injustice. Some teaching ideas would include using this book in a social studies class, and in an English class some of the entries could be compared and contrasted. Grades that I would use this with would be mostly fourth and fifth grade. It could be use as a way to get older grades interested in researching one of the people in the book. After reading about the lives of these people, they could decide whether or not they want to know more about that person. Although the entries were short, the author seemed to put a lot of effort into researching each of the subjects. In the back of the books is a long list of Source Notes, which detail the source of the quotes, and he includes a Selected Biography section detailing additional research. I would say that the author seems extremely credible. ( )

This book gives us as the reader brief biographies about fourteen of the most famous enemies of slavery. The enemies of slavery that were talked about were John Brown, Fredrick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison,
Abe Lincoln, Elijah Lovejoy, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Charles Summer, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, Denmark Vasey, David Walker, Theodore Dwight Weld. These people fought against slavery in the 1800s. ( )

GR: T
GL: 5.5
DRA: 50
Lexile: 1040L