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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... Moral and ethical aspects—United States—History Sources. 3. Abolitionists—United States—History—19th century Sources. 4. Abolitionists—United States—History—18th century Sources. I. Lowance, Mason I., 1938-. II. Series. E449.A29 2000 ...
... Moral and ethical aspects—United States—History Sources. 3. Abolitionists—United States—History—19th century Sources. 4. Abolitionists—United States—History—18th century Sources. I. Lowance, Mason I., 1938-. II. Series. E449.A29 2000 ...
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... moral degradation of humanity brought about by the “peculiar institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves through an amendment to the Constitution itself. These changes did not ...
... moral degradation of humanity brought about by the “peculiar institution,” but to set forth an objective of immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves through an amendment to the Constitution itself. These changes did not ...
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... moral arguments and influence were not sufficient to overcome the “Slave Power” of the Southern states and the economic demand for slave labor induced by Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s and the worldwide demand ...
... moral arguments and influence were not sufficient to overcome the “Slave Power” of the Southern states and the economic demand for slave labor induced by Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s and the worldwide demand ...
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... moral reform movement, Garrisonian abolitionism provided women with a political framework that assisted the development of a feminist movement. As Garrisonians, women learned a way to view the world and a theory and practice of social ...
... moral reform movement, Garrisonian abolitionism provided women with a political framework that assisted the development of a feminist movement. As Garrisonians, women learned a way to view the world and a theory and practice of social ...
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... moral and right. However, it is important to remember that in the 1820s to 1840s, some of these figures were considered a radical, even dangerous, fringe element, and that they were often regarded as violent insurrectionists. For ...
... moral and right. However, it is important to remember that in the 1820s to 1840s, some of these figures were considered a radical, even dangerous, fringe element, and that they were often regarded as violent insurrectionists. For ...
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John Saffin | |
Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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