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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... institution in the mid-eighteenth century. The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of conscience he suffered when required by his employer, a New Jersey lawyer ...
... institution in the mid-eighteenth century. The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of conscience he suffered when required by his employer, a New Jersey lawyer ...
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... institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves through an amendment to the Constitution itself. These changes did not come easily. As Section II shows, the Bible was used by ...
... institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves through an amendment to the Constitution itself. These changes did not come easily. As Section II shows, the Bible was used by ...
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... institution in their plantation societies, but also to persuade Congress to grant slaveholding privileges to some of the new territories being secured by the federal government, such as the Louisiana Purchase and the Annexation of Texas ...
... institution in their plantation societies, but also to persuade Congress to grant slaveholding privileges to some of the new territories being secured by the federal government, such as the Louisiana Purchase and the Annexation of Texas ...
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... institutions, and the assumption of absolute human equality as a first principle of morality and politics. Both habits of mind, though seemingly abstract, were derived from the concrete task facing abolitionists, to make slavery a ...
... institutions, and the assumption of absolute human equality as a first principle of morality and politics. Both habits of mind, though seemingly abstract, were derived from the concrete task facing abolitionists, to make slavery a ...
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... institutional analysis permitted Garrisonian women to 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 ...
... institutional analysis permitted Garrisonian women to 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 ...
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Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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