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  • av Gelien Matthews
    504,-

    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves.

  • - Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865
    av Stanley Harrold
    578,-

    While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of America's capital.

  • - Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780-1845
    av Ryan McIlhenny
    579,-

    George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.

  • - Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
    av Eric Robert Taylor
    578,-

    Examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks.

  • - The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827
    av David N. Gellman
    651,-

    An innovative blend of cultural and political history, this is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black population.

  • - Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
    av Walter C. Rucker
    651,-

    Offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience.

  • - Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
    av Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
    578,-

    "August First Day" became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern US, the British Caribbean, Canada West, and the UK and played a critical role in popular mobilization against American slavery. J.R. Kerr-Ritchie provides the first detailed analysis of this important commemoration.

  • - The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
    av Carol Lasser, Edward Bartlett Rugemer, Gary Kornblith & m.fl.
    651,-

    Tells the story of how, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oberlin residents, black and white, understood and acted upon their changing perceptions of race, ultimately resulting in the imposition of a colour line.

  • - Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States
    av Reinhard O. Johnson
    798,-

    In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. Reinhard Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this short-lived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics.

  • - Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
    av W. Caleb McDaniel
    651,-

    Offers a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery.

  • av Edward Bartlett Rugemer
    528,-

    "Frank Cirillo's "The Abolitionist Civil War" examines the dramatic transformation of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War, specifically its far-reaching origins, shifting contours, and drastic consequences for both abolitionism and the nation."--

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