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Antislavery and abolition in Philadelphia : emancipation and the long struggle for racial justice in the City of Brotherly Love
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- Creator
- edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807139912, 0807139912, 9780807139929, 0807139920, 9780807139936, 0807139939, 9780807139943, 0807139947
- OCLC
- ocn721889590
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Slavery, freedom, and Philadelphia's struggle for brotherly love, 1685 to 1861 / Ira Berlin -- The origins of antislavery in Pennsylvania : early abolitionists and Benjamin Franklin's Road not taken / David Waldstreicher -- Self-help and self-determination : Black Philadelphians and the dimensions of freedom / Julie Winch -- Race and citizenship in the early republic / Gary Nash -- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the struggle for racial justice / Richard Newman -- Philadelphia abolitionists and antislavery cosmopolitanism / W. Caleb McDaniel -- From natural rights to national sins : Philadelphia's churches face antislavery / Dee E. Andrews -- Staging slavery : representing race and abolitionism on and off the Philadelphia stage / Heather S. Nathans -- "Beautiful providences" : William Still, the Vigilance Committee, and abolitionists in the age of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon
Subjects
- Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
- Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
- Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History.
- United States -- Race relations -- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.