Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in Antebellum American Abolitionism, 1830 1870 - Paperbackby Lawrence J. Friedman (Author) This book, originally published in 1982, is an examination of antebellum abolitionism in the United States. Professor Friedman studies the abolitionists as individuals, delving into the psychology, sociology and group dynamics of the movement. He examines those 'immediatists' who, in contrast to gradualist circles of antislavery opinion, refused, as they saw it, to temporise with evil. He also explores the differences