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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... Early opponents of slavery were primarily religious figures, like the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, who wrote a treatise attacking the institution in the mid-eighteenth century. The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and ...
... Early opponents of slavery were primarily religious figures, like the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, who wrote a treatise attacking the institution in the mid-eighteenth century. The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery, and ...
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... early nineteenth century, but they were delivered by less powerful voices that those of the leading opponents of slavery who wrote and debated between 1830 and 1865, the period of the militant and aggressive “abolitionist crusade ...
... early nineteenth century, but they were delivered by less powerful voices that those of the leading opponents of slavery who wrote and debated between 1830 and 1865, the period of the militant and aggressive “abolitionist crusade ...
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... early nineteenth centuries, and although in 1808 Congress had prohibited by law the importation of slaves, thus abolishing the slave trade for Americans, slavery continued to flourish in the Southern states because the slave population ...
... early nineteenth centuries, and although in 1808 Congress had prohibited by law the importation of slaves, thus abolishing the slave trade for Americans, slavery continued to flourish in the Southern states because the slave population ...
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... early in his life by the Quaker rejection of chattel slavery and its inhuman practices, Garrison became one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates of the complete and total emancipation of the slaves, which he first articulated in ...
... early in his life by the Quaker rejection of chattel slavery and its inhuman practices, Garrison became one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates of the complete and total emancipation of the slaves, which he first articulated in ...
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... early nineteenth century was well used to oratory by reformers whose causes were well known. At the same time, during the 1820s and 1830s, American women were beginning to perceive the association between their own oppressed condition ...
... early nineteenth century was well used to oratory by reformers whose causes were well known. At the same time, during the 1820s and 1830s, American women were beginning to perceive the association between their own oppressed condition ...
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John Saffin | |
Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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