As the Civil War raged, a Civil War erupted within the Abolitionist movement, as well. What were their ultimate aims and how should the movement achieve them? Historian Frank J. Cirillo joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation about his book, "The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union."

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