The Abolitionist Movement : documents decoded / Christopher Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Christopher, 1983-

Series:

Documents decoded.

Documents decoded

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abolitionists--United States--History.

Abolitionists.

Abolitionists--United States--History--Sources.

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--United States--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 253 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; SLAVERY AND RACIAL THOUGHT IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA; Quakers and Abolitionism; Petition of Germantown Quakers 1688; Puritan Protests; Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph 1700; Race and the Enlightenment; David Hume, "Of National Characters" 1758; The Colonial Crisis and Abolitionism; James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved 1764; Organized Black Abolitionism; Petition of Massachusetts Blacks to the General Court 1773; African and Indian Alliances; Phillis Wheatley, "Letter to Samson Occom" 1774

Black Masons Protest SlaveryPetition of Prince Hall to the General Court 1777; Antislavery Poetry; Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of General Wooster" 1778; "No Taxation without Representation"; Petition of John and Paul Cuffe to the General Court 1780; "A Suspicion Only"; Thomas Jefferson, Excerpt from Notes on the State of Virginia 1785; Slavery and the Constitution; Gouverneur Morris, "Constitutional Convention Speech" 1787; Atlantic Crossings; Josiah Wedgwood, "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" 1787; ABOLITIONISM AND PROSLAVERY THOUGHT IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; Slavery and Power

Thomas Ruffin Opinion in State v. Mann, North Carolina Supreme Court 1829Early Black Nationalism; David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World 1829; "I Will Be Heard"; William Lloyd Garrison, "To the Public" 1831; Female Prophets of Abolition; Maria Stewart, "Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston" 1833; Southern Abolitionists; Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South 1836; Antislavery and Women's Rights; Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?" 1837; Slave Narratives; Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States 1837

"Republicanism a Sham"Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" 1852; Foundation of the Confederacy; Alexander Stephens, "Cornerstone Speech" 1861; Finally Free; Emancipation Proclamation 1863; The Meaning of the War; Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address 1865; Timeline; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400606137

9798216041504

9781610695121

1610695127

OCLC:

893488217