With so many treatments addressing slavery in just the last two decades it is difficult to find one that does not read like déjà vu.  That is not the case with Kevin M. Burton’s, Apocalyptic Abolitionism: How Millennialists Helped Abolish Slavery and Reform America.  Burton examines the ideological beginnings of the abolitionist movement.  Apocalypticism, which was borne out of the idealism during the antebellum period, believed in the imminent return of Christ and necessity to repent and reform for the subsequent thousand years of worldwide peace.  The nation needed atonement for its original sin of chattel slavery.  According to Burton Read more