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...draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions. In a fury the Neapolitan canaglia, known for a thousand years as the scum of the earth, rose in heroic rebellion against...
Mountains of Ice. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1805, the second son of a Baptist mother and ne'er-do-well father. He early felt the call to serve God and humanity. At 13, he was hired by a newspaper, and before long he was writing editorials denouncing the sins of the world. "Slowly the young man was mastering the difficult art of avoiding argument," writes Thomas. "He simply was not happy with ideas." But he occasionally was moved to verse...
Eventually Garrison ran up against a sin that was worse than drink: slavery. All his other concerns were sidelined while he concentrated on this one. Moving from newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered...
Road to Secession. At first Garrison was hated almost as much in the North by a people content to let the South keep its "peculiar institution." He was heckled when he spoke, and sometimes mobbed. But when the South, 25 years before the Civil War, began to make arbitrary arrests and to stamp out other civil liberties in its efforts to preserve slavery. Northern opinion turned abolitionist. Instead of welcoming the converts, Garrison quarreled with them. While other abolitionists interpreted the Constitution as an anti-slavery document,* Garrison denounced the Constitution as a "covenant with death," and in the most...
...Garrison thought in such absolute terms that once the slaves were "freed" by the Civil War, he washed his hands of them. Other abolitionists, like Wendell Phillips, understood that the battle for Negro rights had only begun. But when the Negroes slipped back into peonage in the South, Garrison scarcely noticed. Of Garrison's role in the postwar period, Thomas comments: "The tragedy was that to the citizens of the North who were finally ready to listen to an antislavery hero he had nothing...