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Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780691100395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the activities of nearly 300 abolitionists and their descendants, this title reveals that some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910.
Author: James M. MacPherson
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James M. McPherson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780691005553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Struggle for Equality, the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson offered an important and timely analysis of the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This work remains an incisive demonstration of the successful role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, when they evolved from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican party. The vivid narrative stresses the intensely individual efforts that characterized the movement, drawing on letters and anti-slavery periodicals to let the voices of the abolitionists express for themselves their triumphs and anxieties. Asserting that it was not the abolitionists who failed in their efforts to instill the principles of equality on the state level but rather the American people who refused to follow their leadership, McPherson raises broad questions about the obstacles that have long hindered American reform movements in general. This new paperback edition contains a preface in which the author explains some of the changing perspectives that would lead him to write several aspects of this story differently today. The original hardcover was a winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations.
Author: Archibald Henry Grimké
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 183
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the life story of the American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. The book draws heavily on the story of Garrison's life as told by his children and covers his upbringing, ministry, and leadership in the anti-slavery movement.
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1438106300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe abolitionist movement, which was a campaign to end the practice of slavery and the slave trade, began to take shape in the wake of the American Revolution. This book provides an exploration of this seminal movement in American history.
Author: Reyna Eisenstark
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1438131674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom John Adams to the women who supported abolition, this volume provides a comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement. Beginning with a historical explanation of the African slave trade and its role in American history, Abolitionism explores every important person, event, and issue that helped push the North and South closer to the Civil War. This book also includes colorful sidebars featuring primary resource documents like the Gettysburg Address and narratives from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Author: Alex Renton
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 178689887X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Blood Legacy explores what inheritance – political, economic, moral and spiritual – has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former – himself among them – can begin to make reparations for the past.
Author: Henry Mayer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-05-17
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 1324006226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston Globe Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced, the political and social climate of Garrison's times and his achievements appear here in all their prophetic brilliance. Finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction.
Author: James Tackach
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590180020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the introduction of slaves into American society, the beginnings of the abolitionist movement, the national conflict over slavery and the resulting Civil War, emancipation of the slaves, and slavery's legacy.
Author: Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 159558854X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others. Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, antislavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown. With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America's history.
