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The transformation of American abolitionism : fighting slavery in the early Republic Richard S. Newman
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Richard S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Abolitionists--United States--History.
- Abolitionists.
- African Americans--Politics and government--18th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
- Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
- Social change--United States--History--18th century.
- Social change.
- Social change--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Abolitionist transformations
- Republican strategists : the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
- Deferential petitioners : the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in state and federal government, 1790-1830
- Creating free spaces : blacks and abolitionist activism in Pennsylvania courts, 1780s-1830s
- An appeal to the heart : the black protest tradition and the coming of immediatism
- From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, from colonization to immediatism : race and the overhaul of American abolitionism
- The new abolitionist imperative : mass action strategies
- A whole lot of shoe leather : agents and the impact of grassroots organizing in Massachusetts during the 1830s
- The struggle continued
- Appendix one : Letters from Maryland slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, regarding fugitive slaves
- Appendix two : Maps
- Maps 1A-D. Agent travels in Massachusetts
- Map 2. Liberator subscriptions in Massachusetts, 1830-1840
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Based upon the author's dissertation.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Newman, Richard S. Transformation of American abolitionism.
- ISBN:
- 0807826715 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807826713 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807849987 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780807849989 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 47023536
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Publisher description
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