Courage and Conscience

Black and White Abolitionists in Boston

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

"Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to the antislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African American abolitionists." —Choice" . . . handsome, lavishly illustrated, and informative . . . " —The New England Quarterly" . . . this work is a thoughtful, long overdue discourse on individual and group accomplishments. It is replete with absorbing illustrations, which when accompanied by insightful essays, depict the courage of those who labored for equality in antebellum Boston." —Journal of the Early RepublicUntil recently little was known of the contributions of African Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Massachusetts, having granted voting rights early on to black males, was a center of antislavery agitation. Courage and Conscience documents the black activism in 19th-century Boston that was critical to the success of the abolitionist cause.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-03-22
Mått:216 x 267 x undefined mm
Vikt:708 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253207937

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Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

DONALD M. JACOBS, Professor of History at Northeastern University, is the editor of Antebellum Black Newspapers and Index to the American Slave. He is the author of While the Cabots Talked to God: Racial Conflict in Antebellum Boston, the Black Struggle, 1825–1861.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by John Hope FranklinPrefaceEditor's PrefaceOneDavid Walker and William Lloyd Garrison: Racial Cooperation and the Shaping of Boston AbolitionDonald M. JacobsTwoAbolitionism and the Nature of Antebellum ReformWilliam E. GienappThreeThe Art of the Antislavery MovementBernard F. Reilly, Jr.FourMassachusetts Abolitionists Document the Slave ExperienceRobert L. HallFiveBoston, Abolition, and the Atlantic World, 1820-1861James Brewer StewartSixThe Affirmation of Manhood: Black Garrisonians in Antebellum BostonJames Oliver Horton and Lois E. HortonSevenThe Black Presence in the West End of Boston, 1800-1864: A Demographic MapAdelaide M. CromwellEightBoston's Black Churches: Institutional Centers of the Antislavery MovementRoy E. FinkenbineNine"What If I Am a Woman?" Maria W. Stewart's Defense of Black Women's Political ActivismMarilyn RichardsonTenIntegration versus Separatism: William Cooper Nell's Role in the Struggle for EqualityDorothy Porter WesleyAppendixesBibliographyContributorsIndex34444