Chapter six, titled ‘Wendell Phillips: the Patrician as Agitator’, is about the beliefs and decisions of Wendell Phillips. Richard Hofstadter starts by saying that even though Phillips never held office; he was among the most influential Americans after the fall of Fort Sumter. He was one of the most impression abolitionists. Wendell opened a law office in 1835 after studying at Harvard. He strongly believed in the abolition movement, and he married Anne Terry Greene, a strong woman who was also an abolitionist. After joining the abolition movement, he shut down the law office and became loyal to lecturing. He went on trips to neighboring towns and beyond the borders of the state of Massachusetts to speak of abolition. He stood for many different
