Abolition and antislavery : a historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic / Peter Hinks and John McKivigan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinks, Peter P.

McKivigan, John R., 1949-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Encyclopedias.

Abolitionists.

Antislavery movements--United States--Encyclopedias.

Antislavery movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 447 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery, abolition, and emancipation to illustrate the various forms of these forces and the courses they followed in the bitterly contested struggle against the institution of slavery, affording readers the most current compendium of the diverse scholarship of this important historical topic. Ge

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Entries; List of Primary Documents; Preface; Introduction; Chronology; The Encyclopedia; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Primary Documents; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-420) and index.

ISBN:

9798400606090

9798216041467

9781786845313

1786845318

9781610698283

1610698282

OCLC:

914328642