Speech of George Thompson, Esq., At a Great Meeting for the Extinction of Negro Apprenticeship
Speech of George Thompson, Esq., At a Great Meeting for the Extinction of Negro Apprenticeship

Author: George Thompson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9780243031092

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Excerpt from Speech of George Thompson, Esq., At a Great Meeting for the Extinction of Negro Apprenticeship: Held in the Town Hall, Devonport, on Wednesday, May 2nd, 1838 Mr. Tripe again rose, and made a few remarks, when the mayor declared that he did not consider Mr. Thompson to have been out of order. If he was not allowed to comment on Sir George Grey's speech, he did not see how he could substantiate his argument. - (loud cheers.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Ties That Bind
The Ties That Bind

Author: J. R. Oldfield

Publisher: Liverpool Studies in Internati

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 178962200X

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The Ties that Bind explores in depth the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, years that witnessed the overthrow of slavery in both the British Caribbean and the American South. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book sheds important new light on the dynamics of abolitionist opinion building during the Age of Reform, from books and artefacts to anti-slavery songs, lectures and placards. Building an anti-slavery public required patience and perseverance. It also involved an engagement with politics, even if anti-slavery activists disagreed about what form that engagement should take. This is a book about the importance of transatlantic co-operation and the transmission of ideas and practices. Yet, at the same time, it is also alert to the tensions that underlay these 'Atlantic affinities', particularly when it came to what was sometimes perceived as the increasing Americanization of anti-slavery protest culture. Above all, The Ties that Bind stresses the importance of personality, perhaps best exemplified in the enduring transatlantic friendship between George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison.