Against Slavery: An Abolitionist ReaderMason Lowance Penguin, 1 feb. 2000 - 384 sidor "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... Quakers, who had opposed slavery in Great Britain, developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery in ... Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of ...
... Quakers, who had opposed slavery in Great Britain, developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery in ... Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of ...
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... Quaker rejection of chattel slavery and its inhuman practices, Garrison became one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates of the complete and total emancipation of the slaves, which he first articulated in Benjamin Lundy's paper ...
... Quaker rejection of chattel slavery and its inhuman practices, Garrison became one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates of the complete and total emancipation of the slaves, which he first articulated in Benjamin Lundy's paper ...
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... Quaker, as the candidates for president and vice president. With the Garrisonians still calling for “no union with slaveholders,” the concept of party politics within the Union was inconceivable. As Louis Ruchames put it: A decisive ...
... Quaker, as the candidates for president and vice president. With the Garrisonians still calling for “no union with slaveholders,” the concept of party politics within the Union was inconceivable. As Louis Ruchames put it: A decisive ...
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... Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and the Boston writer Lydia Maria Child: Garrison founded the New England Antislavery Society in 1831 and the American Antislavery Society in 1833, when factionalism within the New England group ...
... Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and the Boston writer Lydia Maria Child: Garrison founded the New England Antislavery Society in 1831 and the American Antislavery Society in 1833, when factionalism within the New England group ...
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... Quaker John Woolman returned to the religious argument for the humane treatment of Africans, and writing some fifty years after Sewall and Mather, he argued for the emancipation of slaves if not for the equality of blacks and whites ...
... Quaker John Woolman returned to the religious argument for the humane treatment of Africans, and writing some fifty years after Sewall and Mather, he argued for the emancipation of slaves if not for the equality of blacks and whites ...
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