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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newman, Richard S.

Mueller, James, 1941-

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.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.

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 index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780807139912 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780807139929 (pdf)

9780807139936 (epub)

9780807139943 (mobi)