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Roving Editor
Or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States, by James Redpath
Häftad, 1996
606 kr
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While a reporter at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, James Redpath developed a strong curiosity about slavery and decided that he would travel south "to see slavery with my own eyes." Redpath interviewed slaves, recorded their opinions, and collected these letters into book form, publishing them …
Moment of Decision
Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity
Av John McKivigan, Randall M. Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1099 kr
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Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historical moment in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans. Each of these Americans experienced a moment …
War Against Proslavery Religion
Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
Inbunden, 1984
715 kr
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Reflecting a prodigious amount of research in primary and secondary sources, this book examines the efforts of American abolitionists to bring northern religious institutions to the forefront of the antislavery movement.John R. McKivigan employs both conventional and quantitative historical …
Forgotten Firebrand
James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2008
850 kr
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The reformer James Redpath (1833–1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural life. He befriended John Brown, Samuel Clemens, and Henry George and, toward the end of his life, was a ghostwriter for Jefferson Davis. He advocated for …
In the Words of Frederick Douglass
Quotations from Liberty's Champion
Av Frederick Douglass, John R. McKivigan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
343 kr
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"No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us."—Frederick Douglass on African Americans"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to …
War Against Proslavery Religion
Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
Häftad, 2009
588 kr
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Reflecting a prodigious amount of research in primary and secondary sources, this book examines the efforts of American abolitionists to bring northern religious institutions to the forefront of the antislavery movement.John R. McKivigan employs both conventional and quantitative historical …
Abolitionism and American Reform
Inbunden, 1999
1526 kr
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Several of this volume's essays trace the origins of the modern immediate abolitionist campaign to the ideological ferment of the Age of Enlightenment followed by the intellectual reorientation produced by Romanticism. New perspectives on the movement's origins enable modern scholars to rebut …
Abolitionism and American Religion
Inbunden, 1999
1526 kr
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This volume presents key published articles on the history of the American abolitionist movement's attempt to convert the nation's religious institutions into allies in the battle for emancipation. As this volume's essays describe, many abolitionists persisted in attempting to induce the churches …
Abolitionism and American Politics and Government
Inbunden, 1999
764 kr
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These essays demonstrate that support for a more aggressive battle against slavery had been growing for a number of decades before finding broad support among abolitionists in the 1850s. Ultimately the political and more militant wings of abolitionism converged after the start of the Civil War, …
Abolitionism and issues of Race and Gender
Inbunden, 1999
1526 kr
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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Abolitionism and American law
Inbunden, 1999
2139 kr
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This volume's essays reveal that the abolitionists' impact on United States law and the Constitution did not end with the Civil War. The immediate postwar Reconstruction amendments were both rooted in the radically anti-positivistic, natural rights philosophy long espoused by the radical political …
Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery
Av John R. McKivigan, Mitchell Snay
Häftad, 1998
577 kr
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This anthology of original essays by historians explores the religious dimensions of the antebellum sectional conflict over slavery. Covering such familiar topics as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, these essays emphasize the diversity that existed within regions, states, and …
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
Av Hannah-Rose Murray, John R. McKivigan
Häftad, 2023
730 kr
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The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual cultureThe only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print cultureProvides a monograph-length introduction …
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
Frederick Douglass in the British Isles
Av Hannah-Rose Murray, John R. McKivigan
Inbunden, 2021
1554 kr
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This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide …
