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The abolitionist movement
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- Creator
- James Tackach, book editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780737719451, 0737719451
- OCLC
- ocm56840571
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.
- Introduction : free at last! -- 1. Abolitionist voices in colonial America -- A Puritan magistrate condemns slavery / Samuel Sewall -- The Quaker critique of American slavery / Dwight Lowell Dumond -- A Virginian lobbies the Virginia legislature to end the slave trade / Arthur Lee -- A Frenchman's view of American slavery / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- 2. Abolitionists of the early American republic -- Abolition and the American Revolution / Merton L. Dillon -- Abolitionists at the Constitutional Convention / Catherine Drinker Bowen -- A founding father's critique of slavery / Benjamin Franklin -- A plan for the abolition of slavery / Fernando Fairfax -- A call for abolition by the First American Antislavery Society / American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race -- 3. The formation of a national abolitionist movement -- Slavery violates the will of God / David Walker -- William Lloyd Garrison commences publication of the Liberator / Henry Mayer -- Nat Turner's slave rebellion / Nat Turner -- A woman's role in the abolitionist movement / Angelina Grimké -- Slaves must agitate to gain their freedom / Henry Highland Garnet -- A sermon on slavery / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- 4. A war for abolition or union? -- Abolition must be the main goal of the Civil War / Frederick Douglas -- The goal of the war : abolish slavery or preserve the union? / Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln moves toward emancipation / John Hope Franklin -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- Extolling Lincoln's emancipation decree / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- 5. From emancipation to civil rights -- Voting rights for the freedmen / Frederick Douglass -- The emergence of Black politics during Reconstruction / Eric Foner -- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 / U.S. Congress -- The failure of reconstruction / Chester J. Wynne -- Chronology