Abolition And Antislavery
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Author |
: Manisha Sinha |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 809 |
Release |
: 2016-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300182088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300182082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Slave's Cause by : Manisha Sinha
“Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe
Author |
: Stanley Harrold |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2019-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813942308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813942306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Abolitionism by : Stanley Harrold
This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement’s direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists’ political tactics—petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians—and on their disruptions of slavery itself. Harrold begins with the abolition movement’s relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its effect in a number of crucial contexts--the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of "immediate" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists’ impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists’ direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author |
: Library of Congress |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210010702593 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African-American Mosaic by : Library of Congress
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Author |
: Richard S. Newman |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807849987 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807849989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transformation of American Abolitionism by : Richard S. Newman
Newman traces the abolition movement's transformation from the American Revolution to 1830, showing how what began in late-18th-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform had by the 1830s become a radical, egalitarian mass movement based in Massachusetts.
Author |
: John Frederick Bell |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2022-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807177846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807177849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Degrees of Equality by : John Frederick Bell
Winner of the New Scholar’s Book Award from the American Educational Research Association The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country’s colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex. Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however, color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell’s Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications for the progress of racial justice in both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and promotional materials, Bell interrogates how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments illustrates a tragic irony of abolitionism, as the achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites to divest from the project of racial pluralism.
Author |
: James Oakes |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324005865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324005866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by : James Oakes
Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Author |
: J. Brent Morris |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469618272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469618273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism by : J. Brent Morris
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Author |
: Josep M. Fradera |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2013-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857459343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857459341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire by : Josep M. Fradera
African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain’s role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.
Author |
: Seymour Drescher |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 939 |
Release |
: 2009-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139482967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139482963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abolition by : Seymour Drescher
In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
Author |
: Gelien Matthews |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807131312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807131318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement by : Gelien Matthews
"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery. She makes use of previously overlooked publications of British abolitionists to prove that their language changed over time in response to slave uprisings.".