On November 20, 1854, Phillips set out on his first “abolitionizing trip,” as Ann soon called them. He was to make dozens of them during the next quarter century. The list of those who would join Phillips at the podium at his various stops included Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune; Salmon P. Chase, Ohio’s new Free-Soil party senator; Antoinette Brown, the dynamic feminist, Cassius M. Clay, a hard-bitten political abolitionist from Kentucky; Ralph Waldo Emerson, the transcendentalist sage; and Joshua R. Giddings,
