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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... slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of conscience he suffered when required by his employer, a New Jersey lawyer, to write an indenture of sale for the purchase of a slave. Moreover, slavery was ...
... slavery, and one among them, John Woolman, eloquently told of the anguish of conscience he suffered when required by his employer, a New Jersey lawyer, to write an indenture of sale for the purchase of a slave. Moreover, slavery was ...
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... slavery the opportunity not only to argue the 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 ...
... slavery the opportunity not only to argue the 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 ...
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... slavery and the slave trade, but its 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 ...
... slavery and the slave trade, but its 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 ...
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... slavery from a first-person perspective, from an “insider's point of view.” The voices that appear in these slave narratives, which should be read in conjunction with the abolitionist documents contained in this volume, differ markedly ...
... slavery from a first-person perspective, from an “insider's point of view.” The voices that appear in these slave narratives, which should be read in conjunction with the abolitionist documents contained in this volume, differ markedly ...
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... slavery. The Constitution, Garrison came to believe, assumed the existence of slavery, gave the institution its sanction, and could not be changed without the consent of a considerable portion of the slave states themselves, which ...
... slavery. The Constitution, Garrison came to believe, assumed the existence of slavery, gave the institution its sanction, and could not be changed without the consent of a considerable portion of the slave states themselves, which ...
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John Saffin | |
Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
Theodore Dwight Weld 18031895 | |
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