The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic - Couverture rigide

Newman, Richard S.

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ISBN 10 : 0807826715 ISBN 13 : 9780807826713

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Transformation of American Abolitionism 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. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Richard S. Newman is assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790@-1860 and an educational consultant to Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0807826715
• ISBN 13: 9780807826713
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272