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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... escape the control of the clergy and move beyond pietistic activism. The principle of absolute human equality freed them from the necessity of justifying all their duties in terms of woman's sphere. (Ellen Dubois, “Women's Rights and ...
... escape the control of the clergy and move beyond pietistic activism. The principle of absolute human equality freed them from the necessity of justifying all their duties in terms of woman's sphere. (Ellen Dubois, “Women's Rights and ...
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... escaped slaves be returned as property to their rightful owners in the South, regardless of the conviction of the Northern antislavery sympathizers. Thus it became a federal crime punishable by fines and jail sentences to harbor an escaped ...
... escaped slaves be returned as property to their rightful owners in the South, regardless of the conviction of the Northern antislavery sympathizers. Thus it became a federal crime punishable by fines and jail sentences to harbor an escaped ...
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... escaped slaves either into safe sanctuary in the North or into further escape into Canada. Finally, the abolitionists represented in this volume were opposed to the objectives of the American Colonization Society, which had been ...
... escaped slaves either into safe sanctuary in the North or into further escape into Canada. Finally, the abolitionists represented in this volume were opposed to the objectives of the American Colonization Society, which had been ...
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... escaped former slave who had joined the group in 1841, attended an abolitionist gathering on Nantucket, where he was asked to speak of his life as a slave, and from 1841 to 1848 Douglas was a staunch Garrisonian abolitionist. However ...
... escaped former slave who had joined the group in 1841, attended an abolitionist gathering on Nantucket, where he was asked to speak of his life as a slave, and from 1841 to 1848 Douglas was a staunch Garrisonian abolitionist. However ...
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... escape from Maryland to the North, and finally to Helen Pitts Douglass, a white woman, about whom Douglass remarked that he had married his first wife in honor of his mother, and his second in honor of his (white) father, whom he did ...
... escape from Maryland to the North, and finally to Helen Pitts Douglass, a white woman, about whom Douglass remarked that he had married his first wife in honor of his mother, and his second in honor of his (white) father, whom he did ...
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Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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