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Abolitionism : a very short introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Richard S. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Very short introductions ; 578.
Subjects:
Abolitionists > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > History.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
Free African Americans > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Abolitionist agitation in a world of slavery and pain
  • Early abolitionism: prophets versus profits
  • The rise of black abolitionism and global antislavery struggles
  • The time is now: The rise of immediate abolition
  • The abolitionist crossroads
  • The abolitionist renaissance and the coming of the Civil War
  • American emancipations: abolitionism in the Civil War era
  • Epilogue: Abolitionist endings in the Atlantic world and new beginnings.