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Standard-bearers of equality : America's first abolition movement / Paul J. Polgar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polgar, Paul J., author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--Middle Atlantic States--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans--Political activity.
- Free African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery--History.
- Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
- New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated--History.
- New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021.
- Summary:
- This volume recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality.
- Contents:
- The making of a movement : progress, problems, and the ambiguous origins of the abolitionist project
- The "just rights of freedom" : enforcing and expanding gradual emancipation
- Republicans of color : societal environmentalism and the quest for black citizenship
- "A well grounded hope" : sweeping away the cobwebs of prejudice
- "Unconquerable prejudice" and "alien enemies" : the roots and rise of the American Colonization Society
- A prudent alternative or a dangerous diversion? First movement abolitionists respond to colonization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-9611-8
- 979-88-908588-8-7
- 979-88-908588-9-4
- 1-4696-5395-8
- OCLC:
- 1127052528
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