Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform 5x7 The fort’s guns helped defend

The fort’s guns helped defend the city during the war’s longest siege

and deeply troubled man

his rise to wealth in the Memphis slave trade

serving from 1861 until his assassination

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform 5x7 The fort’s guns helped defendby Anne E. Marshall The nineteenth century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife wielding rabble rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the office of the antislavery newspaper he founded in Lexington. Despite attempts on his life, he helped