Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform lanterns is a compelling story of

is a compelling story of a little-studied yet consequential corps and fills a longstanding historiographical gap

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Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform lanterns is a compelling story ofby 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