The antislavery vanguard : new essays on the abolitionists / edited by Martin Duberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duberman, Martin B., editor.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abolitionists--United States.

Abolitionists.

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1965.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "meddlesome fanatics" is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this re-examination of thee abolitionists, the harsh, one-sided judgment that they were men blind to their own motives, to the needs of the country, and even to the welfare of the slaves, and that their self-righteous fury did much to bring on a "needless war" is not completely reversed, but a more sympathetic evaluation of their role does emerge. The motives tactics and effects of the abolitionist movement are reviewed, and its place in the broader context of the antislavery movement is reconsidered.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Duberman, Martin

Part I: Background

1. Slavery and Sin: The Cultural Background / Davis, David Brion

2. Who Was an Abolitionist? / Gara, Larry

3. Who Defends the Abolitionist? / Brodie, Fawn M.

Part II : Individuals

4. Orange Scott: The Methodist Evangelist as Revolutionary / Mathews, Donald G.

5. The Persistence of Wendell Phillips / Bartlett, Irving H.

6. Abolition's Different Drummer: Frederick Douglass / Quarles, Benjamin

Part III: The Abolitionists and the Negro

7. The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist / Litwack, Leon F.

8. A Brief for Equality: The Abolitionist Reply to the Racist Myth, 1860-1865 / McPherson, James M.

9. "Iconoclasm Has Had Its Day": Abolitionists and Freedmen in South Carolina / Rose, Willie Lee

Part IV: Side Perspectives

10. The Abolitionist Critique of the United States Constitution / Lynd, Staughton

11. Antislavery and Utopia / Thomas, John L.

12. The Psychology of Commitment: The Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society / Tomkins, Silvan S.

Part V: Comparisons: A. Foreign B. Domestic

A. Foreign

13. "A Sacred Animosity": Abolitionism in Canada / Winks, Robin W.

14. The British and American Abolitionists Compared / Temperley, Howard R.

B. Domestic

15. Ambiguities in the Antislavery Crusade of the Republican Party / Durden, Robert F.

16. The Northern Response to Slavery

PART VI: CONCLUDING

17. Abolitionists, Freedom-Riders, and the Tactics of Agitation

Index

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691649474

0691649472

9780691045054

0691045054

9781400875160

1400875161

OCLC:

967532867