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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... existence of slavery in the land of the free. —BENJAMIN QUARLES, THE BLACKABOLITIONISTS, 1969 Thus begins one of this century's best studies of the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century, written by an African American scholar ...
... existence of slavery in the land of the free. —BENJAMIN QUARLES, THE BLACKABOLITIONISTS, 1969 Thus begins one of this century's best studies of the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century, written by an African American scholar ...
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... existence of slavery, gave the institution its sanction, and could not be changed without the consent of a considerable portion of the slave states themselves, which therefore made the abolition of slavery by constitutional means ...
... existence of slavery, gave the institution its sanction, and could not be changed without the consent of a considerable portion of the slave states themselves, which therefore made the abolition of slavery by constitutional means ...
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... really did not question slavery; there is no record of his having protested its existence or having written anything in opposition to it. He continued to hold slaves at Mount Vernon after his inauguration as president of the.
... really did not question slavery; there is no record of his having protested its existence or having written anything in opposition to it. He continued to hold slaves at Mount Vernon after his inauguration as president of the.
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