Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This has been my work for the past decade," said Mayer, describing his work on All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, a biography published last fall by St. Martin's Press...
...Mayer said he found inspiration for his book, which recounts Garrison's critical role in the abolition of slavery, from two different sources...
...Mayer said his experience in writing Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic piqued his interest in slavery and constitutional slavery...
...When Mayer began his work on the book in 1989, he found only portraits of Garrison as a fanatic. In the course of his research, though, Mayer found Garrison to be a "much nicer" person, he said...
...also found inspiration for his work from his experience as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (UNC), he said. Mayer, who grew up in a small North Carolina town, said he met a black student at college who had an entirely different life experience than...