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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... human beings. Americans began debating the slavery issue in the late seventeenth century, when the Quakers, who had opposed slavery in Great Britain, developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery in North America, but ...
... human beings. Americans began debating the slavery issue in the late seventeenth century, when the Quakers, who had opposed slavery in Great Britain, developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery in North America, but ...
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... humanity brought about by the “peculiar institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves ... human beings as chattel property, especially during the period 1776-1865, while the United.
... humanity brought about by the “peculiar institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves ... human beings as chattel property, especially during the period 1776-1865, while the United.
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... human equality as a first principle of morality and politics. Both habits of mind, though seemingly abstract, were derived from the concrete task facing abolitionists, to make slavery a burning issue for northern Whites. The women.
... human equality as a first principle of morality and politics. Both habits of mind, though seemingly abstract, were derived from the concrete task facing abolitionists, to make slavery a burning issue for northern Whites. The women.
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... human equality freed them from the necessity of justifying all their duties in terms of woman's sphere. (Ellen Dubois, “Women's Rights and Abolition: The Nature of the Connection,” in Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an ...
... human equality freed them from the necessity of justifying all their duties in terms of woman's sphere. (Ellen Dubois, “Women's Rights and Abolition: The Nature of the Connection,” in Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an ...
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... human beings were derived from a unique, created original, Adam and Eve, and that differences among us today are cultural and ethnic but not essential. Though not all abolitionists were also proponents of full, natural equality between ...
... human beings were derived from a unique, created original, Adam and Eve, and that differences among us today are cultural and ethnic but not essential. Though not all abolitionists were also proponents of full, natural equality between ...
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John Saffin | |
Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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