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Antislavery In The Dissenting Atlantic - Archives And Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865

by Bridget Bennett

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 Bridget Bennett’s Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic explores the impact of a historically situated set of transatlantic networks, chiefly centered on prominent communities of religious nonconformists in England and Pennsylvania in the decades between the American Revolution and American Civil War. The study reveals the alliances forged out of progressive religious and political commitments to dissent that enabled expansive connections across the Atlantic world. These developments emerged from local proximities and combined an optimistic devotion to social justice and education with a global vision. Bennett’s work offers an original and innovative reading of transatlantic partnerships, exploring obscure writings, overlooked individuals, and the cultures of the everyday, while also affording fresh understandings of familiar antislavery texts.
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Antislavery In The Dissenting Atlantic - Archives And Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865

by Bridget Bennett

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Bridget Bennett’s Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic explores the impact of a historically situated set of transatlantic networks, chiefly centered on prominent communities of religious nonconformists in England and Pennsylvania in the decades between the American Revolution and American Civil War. The study reveals the alliances forged out of progressive religious and political commitments to dissent that enabled expansive connections across the Atlantic world. These developments emerged from local proximities and combined an optimistic devotion to social justice and education with a global vision. Bennett’s work offers an original and innovative reading of transatlantic partnerships, exploring obscure writings, overlooked individuals, and the cultures of the everyday, while also affording fresh understandings of familiar antislavery texts.
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The Abolitionist Civil War - Immediatists And The Struggle To Transform The Union

by Frank J. Cirillo

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 Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirilloâ€™s The Abolitionist Civil War explores how antislavery reformers contorted their arguments and clashed with each other as they laboured over the course of the conflict to create a more perfect Union.
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Abolitionist Civil War - Immediatists And The Struggle To Transform The Union

by Frank J. Cirillo

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 Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirilloâ€™s The Abolitionist Civil War explores how antislavery reformers contorted their arguments and clashed with each other as they laboured over the course of the conflict to create a more perfect Union.
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Most Absolute Abolition - Runaways, Vigilance Committees, And The Rise Of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861

by Jesse Olsavsky

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 Tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organised the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. Jesse Olsavsky reveals how the committees cultivated a movement of ideas animated by a motley assortment of agitators and intellectuals who shared critical information with one another.
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The Most Absolute Abolition - Runaways, Vigilance Committees, And The Rise Of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 18351861

by Jesse Olsavsky

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 Tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organised the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. Jesse Olsavsky reveals how the committees cultivated a movement of ideas animated by a motley assortment of agitators and intellectuals who shared critical information with one another.
Elusive Utopia - The Struggle For Racial Equality In Oberlin, Ohio

by Carol Lasser e Gary Kornblith

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 Drawing from newspapers, pamphlets, organisational records, memoirs, census materials and tax lists, Elusive Utopia traces the rise and fall of Oberlin's idealistic vision and commitment to racial equality in a pivotal era in American history.
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Degrees Of Equality - Abolitionist Colleges And The Politics Of Race

by John Frederick Bell

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 Analyses the trajectory of interracial reform at three colleges - Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea - noting its implications for the progress of racial equality in nineteenth-century America. John Frederick Bell uses case studies to interrogate how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice.
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Borderland Blacks - Two Cities In The Niagara Region During The Final Decades Of Slavery

by Dann J. Broyld

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 Winner of the OHS Fred Landon Award In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and temperance. Moreover, these urban centers were home to sizable free Black communities as well as an array of individuals engaged in the abolitionist movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anthony Burns, and Hiram Wilson. dann j. Broyld’s Borderland Blacks explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cultures and interests of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the African Diaspora overlapped. Blacks in the two cities shared newspapers, annual celebrations, religious organizations, and kinship and friendship ties. Too often, historians have focused on the one-way flow of fugitives on the Underground Railroad from America to Canada when in fact the situation on the ground was far more fluid, involving two-way movement and social collaborations. Black residents possessed transnational identities and strategically positioned themselves near the American-Canadian border where immigration and interaction occurred. Borderland Blacks reveals that physical separation via formalized national barriers did not sever concepts of psychological memory or restrict social ties. Broyld investigates how the times and terms of emancipation affected Blacks on each side of the border, including their use of political agency to pit the United States and British Canada against one another for the best possible outcomes.
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Degrees Of Equality - Abolitionist Colleges And The Politics Of Race

by John Frederick Bell

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 Winner of the New Scholar’s Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Winner of the Linda Eisenmann Prize from the History of Education Society The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country’s colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex. Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however, color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell’s Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications for the progress of racial justice in both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and promotional materials, Bell interrogates how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments illustrates a tragic irony of abolitionism, as the achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites to divest from the project of racial pluralism.
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Liberty Party, 1840-1848 - Antislavery Third-Party Politics In The United States

by Reinhard O. Johnson

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 In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. Reinhard Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this short-lived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics.
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Bonds Of Salvation - How Christianity Inspired And Limited American Abolitionism

by Ben Wright

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 Ben Wright’s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, and political maneuvering as primary forces in the evolution of slavery in the United States. Wright instead foregrounds the pivotal role religion played in shaping the ideological contours of the early abolitionist movement. Wright first examines the ideological distinctions between religious conversion and purification in the aftermath of the Revolution, when a small number of white Christians contended that the nation must purify itself from slavery before it could fulfill its religious destiny. Most white Christians disagreed, focusing on visions of spiritual salvation over the practical goal of emancipation. To expand salvation to all, they created new denominations equipped to carry the gospel across the American continent and eventually all over the globe. These denominations established numerous reform organizations, collectively known as the "benevolent empire," to reckon with the problem of slavery. One affiliated group, the American Colonization Society (ACS), worked to end slavery and secure white supremacy by promising salvation for Africa and redemption for the United States. Yet the ACS and its efforts drew strong objections. Proslavery prophets transformed expectations of expanded salvation into a formidable antiabolitionist weapon, framing the ACS''s proponents as enemies of national unity. Abolitionist assertions that enslavers could not serve as agents of salvation sapped the most potent force in American nationalism—Christianity—and led to schisms within the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches. These divides exacerbated sectional hostilities and sent the nation farther down the path to secession and war. Wright’s provocative analysis reveals that visions of salvation both created and almost destroyed the American nation.
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To Preach Deliverance To The Captives - Freedom And Slavery In The Protestant Mind Of George Bourne, 1780-1845

by Ryan C. Mcilhenny

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 George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.
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To Preach Deliverance To The Captives - Freedom And Slavery In The Protestant Mind Of George Bourne, 1780-1845

by Ryan Mcilhenny

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 George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.
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To Preach Deliverance To The Captives - Freedom And Slavery In The Protestant Mind Of George Bourne, 1780-1845

by Ryan C. Mcilhenny

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 George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.
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Elusive Utopia - The Struggle For Racial Equality In Oberlin, Ohio

by Carol Lasser e Gary Kornblith

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 Drawing from newspapers, pamphlets, organisational records, memoirs, census materials and tax lists, Elusive Utopia traces the rise and fall of Oberlin's idealistic vision and commitment to racial equality in a pivotal era in American history.
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Rites Of August First - Emancipation Day In The Black Atlantic World

by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

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 â€œAugust First Dayâ€ became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern US, the British Caribbean, Canada West, and the UK and played a critical role in popular mobilization against American slavery. J.R. Kerr-Ritchie provides the first detailed analysis of this important commemoration.
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Caribbean Slave Revolts And The British Abolitionist Movement

by Gelien Matthews

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 In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves.
The Problem Of Emancipation - The Caribbean Roots Of The American Civil War

by Edward Bartlett Rugemer

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 Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, Edward Bartlett Rugemer explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atlantic empire on the United States' politics.
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If We Must Die - Shipboard Insurrections In The Era Of The Atlantic Slave Trade

by Eric Robert Taylor

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 Examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks.
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The River Flows On - Black Resistance, Culture, And Identity Formation In Early America

by Walter C. Rucker

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 Offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience.
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Emancipating New York - The Politics Of Slavery And Freedom, 1777-1827

by David N. Gellman

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 An innovative blend of cultural and political history, this is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black population.
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The Problem Of Democracy In The Age Of Slavery - Garrisonian Abolitionists And Transatlantic Reform

by W. Caleb Mcdaniel

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 Offers a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as â€œGarrisoniansâ€ included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery.
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Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, And The Power Of The Past

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 Explores the themes and ideas that animated the activist Wendell Phillips and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips's sustained role in Native American rights and the labour movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature.
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