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Abolition and social justice in the era of reform
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- English
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- New York, Harper & Row [1972]
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- xiii, 367 pages 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0061385727, 9780061385728
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- ocm00588909, ocm00588909
- I. An era of hope : "Hold fast this freedom" / William Ellery Channing -- "Like a fire-bell in the night" / Thomas Jefferson -- "Hoa, negro, where is your certificate!" / James Forten -- New harmony / Robert Owen -- II. Causes and crusades : "I ask you, o Americans, I ask you... can you deny these charges?" / David Walker -- Gradual emancipation / William Birney -- "The people at war " / Frances Wright -- "How different is out situation now!" / Black Hawk -- "The laboring classes" / Orestes A. Brownson -- An antislavery Jacksonian / William Leggett -- "The prisoner of debt" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- II The antislavery concert : "Exciting the minds of the people" / William Lloyd Garrison -- Colonization and abolition / William Jay -- The mind of an abolitionist / Lydia Maria Child -- Disturber of the peace / Theodore Dwight Weld -- "The bible is my ultimate appeal" / Angelina E. Grinke -- "I dare not abandon my sentiments" / Elijah P. Lovejoy -- "Men begin, as in 1776 and 1640, to discuss principles" / Wendell Phillips -- "A'n't I a woman?": sojourner truth -- "Ho! the car emancipation" / The Hutchinsons -- Old man eloquent / John Quincy Adams -- Voice of the freeman and the slave / Frederick Douglass -- British reform: I / Thomas Hood -- British reform II / Shaftesbury -- British abolitionism / George Thompson -- World antislavery / Phillips, Thompson et al. -- III. Reform at high noon : The dial speaks for the mind / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "We...bid the women...our humble godspeed" / Frederick Douglass -- Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: a dissenter of dissenters -- "Each new generation must learn all truth anew" / Horace Mann -- "The palace of the collective man" / Albert Brisbane -- A. J. Macdonald: a communitarian failure: Sylvania -- John Van Der Zee Sears: a communitarian success: brook farm -- "I am not the prisoner's lawyer...I am the lawyer for society" / William Henry Seward -- Margaret Fuller: the life of woman -- Lucy Stone: marriage under protest -- "Don't call on Jesus Christ, he can't help you" / Richard Henry Dana -- "I tell you what I have seen" / Dorothea L. Dix -- Elizur Wright, Jr.: the liberty party: I -- James G. Birney: the liberty part candidate: II -- "Ez fer war, I call it murder" / James Russell Lowell -- "Let us call home our armies" / Thomas Corwin -- Moncure Daniel Conway: reform in the south: a tortuous path: I -- James McCune Smith: the south as reaction: a negro response II -- Esteban Montejo: Cuban slavery -- Elihu Burritt: passice resistance -- John Humphrey Noyes: the dream of community: a summary of results -- IV. The crisis : William Jay: war and peace -- "Ichabod!" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Solomon Northrup: the shadow of bondage on free men -- "Show me a free state, and a court truly of justice, and I will fight for them, if need be" / Henry David Thoreau -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: the great dismal swamp -- Jane Grey Swisshelm: carrying the war to the foe -- V. Revolutions and aftermath