Abolitionism

I had expected to get a better picture of the main currents within global (or Atlantic, at least) abolitionism. The book touched on these topics a little bit, but the weight of the effort was giving a tour of major events leading up to American abolition during the Civil War. Obviously one of the biggest threads to address, but one that is so thoroughly covered in most Civil War books. It felt redundant to spend so much time here, when lacking more effort at coloring in the bigger picture of how and why the tide turned so much in the West between 1800 and 1860.