Horace Greely (an abolitionist

who also started the New York

Tribune; a very influential

newspaper) distributed

Impending Crisis of the South

across the South in an effort to

increase southern white support

for abolition. Why would an

abolitionist embrace this book?

Horace Greely - He was a white-American journalist and abolitionist. Greeley's main concern was the abolition of slavery. Greeley supported the Free Soil Party.

Explanation:

Greeley wrote several books including Glances at Europe 1851, An Overland Journey 1860, a two volume history of the Civil War, The American Conflict 1865, and his autobiography, Recollections of a Busy Life 1868. As Greeley wrote an open letter to the president, Lincoln famously replied three days later "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it."