The Transformation of American Abolitionism [[electronic resource] ] : Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783165003321
• Autore: Newman Richard S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2002
• ISBN: 979-88-908741-9-1; 0-8078-6045-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3620973; 326.8/0973
• Soggetti: Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Social change; History; Political Science; Social Science; Antislavery movements - History - 18th century - United States; Antislavery movements - History - 19th century - United States; Abolitionists - History - 18th century - United States; African Americans - Politics and government - 19th century - United States; African Americans - Politics and government - 18th century - United States; Social change - History - 19th century; Social change - History; United States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Introduction: Abolitionist Transformations; 1. Republican Strategies; 2. Deferential Petitioners; 3. Creating Free Spaces; 4. An Appeal to the Heart; 5. From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, from Colonization to Immediatism; 6. The New Abolitionist Imperative; 7. A ; Whole Lot of Shoe Leather; Epilogue: The Struggle Continued; Appendix 1: Letters from Maryland Slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Appendix 2: Maps; Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: A history of how abolitionism evolved from an elite and conservative movement to a radical, grassroots reform cause. It traces the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770's to the 1830's, covering the attitudes and actions which made it the radical cause we think of it as today.