Slavery attacked; the abolitionist crusade / edited by John L. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, John L., editor.

Series:

Spectrum book: Eyewitness accounts of American history ; S-109.

A Spectrum book: Eyewitness accounts of American history ; S-109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

United States.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Abolitionists--United States.

Abolitionists.

Physical Description:

xi, 178 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1965]

Contents:

The abolitionist crusade / John L. Thomas

William Lloyd Garrison abandons colonization

Elizur Wright, Jr. defines immediate emancipation

William Jay dismisses the pro-slavery argument

The American Anti-Slavery Society sends instructions to Theodore Weld

James Thome and John Alvord withstand a barrage of eggs

Northern women petition Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia

John Greenleaf Whittier writes "The slave ships"

Amos Dresser is whipped in Nashville

Elijah P. Lovejoy addresses the citizens of St. Louis

William Lloyd Garrison protects the intellectual free market

Theodore Weld takes the testimony of a thousand witnesses

Lydia Maria Child explains moderate abolition

Joshua Leavitt warns of a slave-power conspiracy

William Lloyd Garrison repudiates the government of the United States

James G. Birney accepts the nomination of the Liberty Party

Lewis Tappan interprets the schism of 1840

The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society denounces the Union

The Liberty Party holds a national convention

Henry Highland Garnet calls on the slaves to resist

New England abolitionists enlist the Conscience Whigs

James Russell Lowell assails the Mexican War

Lysander Spooner and Henry Bowditch debate the Constitution

Charles Sumner attacks segregation in Boston

Frederick Douglass reviews the progress of abolition

Harriet Beecher Stowe defends the altar of liberty

Gerrit Smith charges a United States marshal with kidnapping

Wendell Phillips vindicates the abolitionists

Theodore Parker prophesies a revolution

Thomas W. Higginson takes a ride through Kansas

Hinton Helper incites class war in the South

Henry Thoreau pleads for Captain John Brown

Moncure Conway joins the second American Revolution

The Reverend Gilbert Haven glimpses the millennium

William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips resolve the fate of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Other Format:

Online version: Thomas, John L. Slavery attacked.

OCLC:

256842