Of one blood : abolitionism and the origins of racial equality / Paul Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Paul, 1934-1995, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 303 pages) illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays particular attention to the role that blacks played in the movement. In the half-century following the American Revolution, a sizable free black population emerged, the result of state-sponsored emancipation in the North and individual manumission in the slave states. At the same time, a white movement took shape, in the form of the American Colonization Society, that proposed to solve the slavery question by sending the emancipated blacks to Africa and making Liberia an American "colony." The resistance of northern free blacks was instrumental in exposing the racist ideology underlying colonization and inspiring early white abolitionists to attack slavery straight on. In a society suffused with racism, says Goodman, abolitionism stood apart by its embrace of racial equality as a Christian imperative. Goodman demonstrates that the abolitionist movement had a far broader social basis than was previously thought. Drawing on census and town records, his portraits of abolitionists reveal the many contributions of ordinary citizens, especially laborers and women long overshadowed by famous movement leaders. Paul Goodman's humane spirit informs these pages. His book is a scholarly legacy that will enrich the history of antebellum race and reform movements for years to come. "[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."--Acts 17:26.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. Racial Equality in the Era of the American Revolution

2. Toward a Herrenvolk Republic

3. The Black Struggle for Racial Equality, 1817-1832

4. The Conversion of William Lloyd Garrison

5. "The Hidden Springs of Prejudice"

6. The Assault on Racial Prejudice, 1831-1837

7. William Goodell and the Market Revolution

8. Anatomy of White Abolitionism

9. God, the Churches, and Slavery

10. "The Tide of Moral Power"

11. Abolitionists versus Aristocrats

12. Workers, Radical Jacksonians, and Abolitionism

13. Anatomy of Female Abolitionism

14. Roots of Female Abolitionism

15. Female Abolitionist Activism

16. The American Peculiarity

17. Of One Blood

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-295) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520926165

0520926161

9780585118185

0585118183

OCLC:

1163878275