Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform slavery ranging from Richard Nixon to

ranging from Richard Nixon to Nancy Reagan

one of the most gruesome in American history

costing thousands of American lives

Southerners finally realized that they had been beaten on the battlefield

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform slavery ranging from Richard Nixon toby 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