... so that the little thin yellow-covered volume came upon the community with something like a shock. As a matter of fact, various influences had led him up to it. His father had been a subscriber to Benjamin Lundy 's Genius of Universal Emancipation, the precursor of Garrison's Liberator. In his youth at Brunswick, Longfellow had thought of writing a drama on the subject of Toussaint l'ouverture, his reason f...