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Standard-bearers of equality : America's first abolition movement /

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Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unearths thi...

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Main Author: Polgar, Paul J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Williamsburg, Virginia : University of North Carolina Press ; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, [2019]
Subjects:
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery > History.
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated > History.
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Political activity.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
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