Bob Gustafson asked John Bicknell:

Do you have any recommendations regarding abolitionists in the U.S., with a specific interest in what they did during Reconstruction? Thanks.

John Bicknell James McPherson, who wrote "Battle Cry of Freedom" and other great books about the Civil War era, wrote "The Abolitionist Legacy:
From Reconstruction to the NAACP," which tells the story of what several anti-slavery activists did following emancipation. Eric Foner's classic "Reconstruction" touches on the subject as well, although it's a small part of his tale. Probably my favorite book on the subject is "All on Fire," a biography of William Lloyd Garrison, which takes him through the antebellum period, the war and Reconstruction. He died in 1879.

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