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The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law

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Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans

In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles Hoffer makes the case that Phillips deserves credit as the nation’s first public interest lawyer, someone who led the antebellum crusade against slavery and championed First Amendment rights and equality for all Americans, including Black people and women.

As a young lawyer, bored and working at a...