Against Slavery: An Abolitionist ReaderMason Lowance Penguin, 01.02.2000 - 384 Seiten "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... South. Second, her argument had called for equality among the races, at least socially and politically, and the fears this doctrine inspired among white Americans both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line were to keep segregation ...
... South. Second, her argument had called for equality among the races, at least socially and politically, and the fears this doctrine inspired among white Americans both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line were to keep segregation ...
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... South Carolina who embraced abolitionism and became extremely vocal opponents of America's national sin. Characterizing slavery as “wrong” and “sinful” had long been an argument of antislavery thinkers; now the more contemporary rights ...
... South Carolina who embraced abolitionism and became extremely vocal opponents of America's national sin. Characterizing slavery as “wrong” and “sinful” had long been an argument of antislavery thinkers; now the more contemporary rights ...
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... South to the Promised Land of Northern freedom, is central to antislavery history. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, part of the Compromise of 1850, was specifically designed to curtail the work of the Underground Railroad and to placate ...
... South to the Promised Land of Northern freedom, is central to antislavery history. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, part of the Compromise of 1850, was specifically designed to curtail the work of the Underground Railroad and to placate ...
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... South, during the antebellum decades. Lincoln's opinions were voiced during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, and they show the political pressure on the candidate to produce viewpoints that would not offend the constituency, even ...
... South, during the antebellum decades. Lincoln's opinions were voiced during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, and they show the political pressure on the candidate to produce viewpoints that would not offend the constituency, even ...
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... South. By the late 1850s, it appeared that the South might indeed secede from the North, and imminent disunion was an enormous threat to politicians like Lincoln, who sought to preserve the Union at all costs, even at the cost of making ...
... South. By the late 1850s, it appeared that the South might indeed secede from the North, and imminent disunion was an enormous threat to politicians like Lincoln, who sought to preserve the Union at all costs, even at the cost of making ...
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John Saffin | |
Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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