Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World – serie
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Subversives
Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865
Häftad, 2002
402 kr
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While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of the nation's capital. Historian Stanley Harrold looks beyond resolutions, platforms, and debates to describe …
No Taint of Compromise
Crusaders in Antislavery Politics
Häftad, 2006
455 kr
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No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who undertook the yeoman's work of organising parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of …
River Flows on
Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
Häftad, 2008
344 kr
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The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyses …
Captives and Voyagers
Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2008
585 kr
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Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and …
Emancipating New York
The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827
Häftad, 2008
344 kr
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An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades …
If We Must Die
Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others …
Problem of Emancipation
The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Häftad, 2009
402 kr
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A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context."" -- Reviews in HistoryWhile many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, …
American Slavery, Irish Freedom
Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal
Inbunden, 2010
585 kr
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Irish Americans who supported the movement for the repeal of the act of parliamentary union between Ireland and Great Britain during the early 1840s encountered controversy over the issue of American slavery. Encouraged by abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic, repeal leader Daniel O'Connell …
Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863
Av Rita Roberts
Inbunden, 2011
527 kr
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During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts …
Captives and Voyagers
Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Häftad, 2010
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Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Alexander X. Byrd …
Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia
Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love
Av Richard Newman, James Mueller
Inbunden, 2011
574 kr
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Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays by a distinguished group of historians, the volume recounts the …
Rites of August First
Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Häftad, 2011
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Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, ""August …
Revolutionary Emancipation
Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies
Inbunden, 2013
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Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, …
Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
Häftad, 2013
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In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of …
Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
Inbunden, 2013
587 kr
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Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and …
Freedom's Seekers
Essays on Comparative Emancipation
Inbunden, 2014
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Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.Drawing on decades of research …
Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783
An Annotated Critical Edition
Inbunden, 2014
585 kr
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Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religious and philosophical arguments with extensive documentation of the slave trade based on eyewitness reports from Africa and the colonies, Benezet's …
Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
Häftad, 2015
461 kr
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Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and …
From Slave to Statesman
The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia
Av Robert Heinrich, Deborah Harding
Inbunden, 2016
424 kr
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In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter's handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family, …
Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past
Av A J Aiséirithe, Donald Yacovone
Inbunden, 2016
662 kr
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Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips's path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family's and society's expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884. …
Degrees of Equality
Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race
Inbunden, 2022
592 kr
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The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country's colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students …
To Preach Deliverance to the Captives
Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780-1845
Inbunden, 2020
518 kr
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George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign against slavery in the antebellum period. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to …
Liberty Party, 1840-1848
Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States
Häftad, 2021
563 kr
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In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the increasing slavery debate and growing sectional conflict, the party had grown to challenge the two mainstream political factions in many areas. In …
Elusive Utopia
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
Av Gary Kornblith, Carol Lasser m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
461 kr
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Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin's resolute stand for …
Abolitionist Civil War
Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union
Av Frank J. Cirillo, Richard J. M. Blackett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
592 kr
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The astonishing transformation of the abolitionist movement during the Civil War proved enormously consequential both for the cause of abolitionism and for the nation at large. Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank J. Cirillo's The …
Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic
Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865
Av Bridget Bennett, Richard J. M. Blackett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
534 kr
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Bridget Bennett's Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic explores the impact of a historically situated set of transatlantic networks, chiefly centered on prominent communities of religious nonconformists in England and Pennsylvania in the decades between the American Revolution and American Civil …
Borderland Blacks
Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery
Häftad, 2025
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Winner of the OHS Fred Landon Award In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement …
Most Absolute Abolition
Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Häftad, 2026
403 kr
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Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Jesse Olsavsky's The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. These groups, based primarily in northeastern cities, defended Black neighborhoods …
Abolitionizing Missouri
German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2026
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Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the first exploration of the impact that the …
Children of Africa in the Colonies
Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that …
