To plead our own cause : African Americans in Massachusetts and the making of the antislavery movement / Christopher Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Christopher, 1983- author.

Series:

American abolitionism and antislavery

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American abolitionists--Massachusetts--History.

African American abolitionists.

History.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 172 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Fleshing out the important links between Reformed theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron argues that African Americans in Massachusetts initiated organized abolitionism in America and that their antislavery ideology had its origins in Puritan thought and the particular system of slavery that this religious ideology shaped in Massachusetts. The political activity of black abolitionists was central in effecting the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the Bay State, and it was likewise key in building a national antislavery movement in the years of the early republic" -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Puritans and slavery

Black abolitionist writers in the age of revolution

Black petitioning and organized abolitionism in revolutionary Massachusetts

Abolition of slavery and the slave trade

Massachusetts blacks and the growth of the northern antislavery movement

Black emigration and abolition in the early republic

Abolitionism and the politics of slavery in early antebellum Massachusetts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-168) and index.

ISBN:

9781606351949

160635194X

OCLC:

867001055