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Antislavery and abolition in Philadelphia : emancipation and the long struggle for racial justice in the City of Brotherly Love / edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller.
Van Pelt Library F158.44 .A67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Abolitionists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Abolitionists.
- Free African Americans--Pennsylvania--History.
- Free African Americans.
- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Jim Mueller and other officials of the National Park Service at Independence Mall in Philadelphia sought out scholars of the abolition movement in Philadelphia (with many of this volume's essays first presented at the 2005 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic meeting in Philadelphia), in order to increase the public profile of the significant black history sites recently discovered on the Mall. The result is a fine volume of nine essays that delve into Philadelphia's role in slavery and emancipation, written by accomplished scholars, including Richard Newman (Rochester Institute of Technology), Ira Berlin (U. of Maryland), David Waldstreicher (Temple U.), Julie Winch (U. of Massachusetts, Boston), and Elizabeth Varon (U. of Virginia). Of interest to specialists, the book will be of profound interest to the general reader, as it's filled with compelling accounts in connection to the various themes, such as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the day-to-day realities of being black in late 18th-century Philadelphia, and the specific arguments used for and against slavery, including those of Benjamin Franklin. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Slavery, freedom, and Philadelphia's struggle for brotherly love, 1685 to 1861 / Ira Berlin
- The origins of antislavery in Pennsylvania : early abolitionists and Benjamin Franklin's Road not taken / David Waldstreicher
- Self-help and self-determination : Black Philadelphians and the dimensions of freedom / Julie Winch
- Race and citizenship in the early republic / Gary Nash
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the struggle for racial justice / Richard Newman
- Philadelphia abolitionists and antislavery cosmopolitanism / W. Caleb McDaniel
- From natural rights to national sins : Philadelphia's churches face antislavery / Dee E. Andrews
- Staging slavery : representing race and abolitionism on and off the Philadelphia stage / Heather S. Nathans
- "Beautiful providences" : William Still, the Vigilance Committee, and abolitionists in the age of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807139912
- 9780807139929
- 0807139920
- 9780807139936
- 0807139939
- 9780807139943
- 0807139947
- OCLC:
- 721889590
- Publisher Number:
- 99946135497
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