Transformation of American Abolitionism Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic

Name: Transformation of American Abolitionism Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
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ISBN: 9780807849989

ISBN-10: 0807849987

ISBN-13: 9780807849989

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard S. Newman

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Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper,The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause. What began in late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Richard Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic and co-editor of the series, Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 .



Preface


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


Epilogue: The Struggle Continued



Letters from Maryland Slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Regarding Fugitive Slaves



Map - 1A-D: Agent Travels in Massachusetts



Map - 2: Liberator Subscriptions in Massachusetts, 1830-1840


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index