Forerunners of Black power; the rhetoric of abolition / edited by Ernest G. Bormann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bormann, Ernest G., compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1971]

Contents:

The rhetoric of abolition.

Evangelical religion and antislavery: The Bible against slavery, by T. D. Weld. Remarks before the committee of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, by H. B. Stanton. Things for northern men to do, by B. Green.

Agitators for radical abolition: July 4th address, 1838, by W. L. Garrison. The brotherhood of thieves, by S. S. Foster. The philosophy of the abolition movement, by W. Phillips.

Black abolitionists: An address to the slaves of the United States of America, by H. H. Garnet. The right to criticize American institutions, by F. Douglass. Speech before the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, by C. L. Remond.

Female antislavery speakers: An address delivered at the African Masonic Hall, by M. W. Stewart. Exordium of speech before Legislative Committee of Massachusetts Legislature, February 21, 1838, by A. E. Grimké. Speech in Pennsylvania Hall, May 16, 1838, by A. G. Weld. No union with slaveholders, by S. B. A

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 242-243.

ISBN:

0133268276

OCLC:

140551