It's worth your while. He was a genuine abolitionist - not one of the many yankee fakes who claimed the title after the war for themselves. Expect to find in him a flamboyant brand of what abolitionism truly was - a passionate but fringe movement containing a strong mixture of both brilliance and kookyness that remained in the fringes despite its name being hijacked by yankees in need of a "moral" position to justify their immorally waged war. That also explains why Spooner, the authentic abolitionist, was so mad when the yankees started up their "look at us - we saved the union and freed the slaves" rhetoric.