The abolitionist movement /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900.
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Table of Contents:
- "In matters of right and equity" : from Quakers to revolution
- "Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other" : slavery and anti-slavery in the new nation
- "Though the heavens should fall" : abolitionism takes shape, the 1830s
- "Contrary to the laws of God and the rights of man" : politics versus spirituality, the 1840s
- "The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : from politics and violence to freedom, the 1850s-1860s
- Concluding interpretative essay.