03005oam 2200709 a 450 991081747720332120240513055225.0979-82-16-03594-797866124079321-282-40793-710.5040/9798216035947(CKB)1000000000808208(EBL)617361(OCoLC)65404195(SSID)ssj0000444800(PQKBManifestationID)11276360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444800(PQKBWorkID)10470624(PQKB)11120008(Au-PeEL)EBL617361(CaPaEBR)ebr10347227(CaONFJC)MIL1707445(MiAaPQ)EBC617361(DLC)BP9798216035947BC(EXLCZ)99100000000080820820240214e20052024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Jay abolitionist and anticolonialist /Stephen P. Budney1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger Publishers,2005.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (180 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-275-98555-5 0-313-04332-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-166) and index.Influences -- "A wonderful apathy prevails" -- "I am an abolitionist, and I thank God I am" -- "On the altar of Moloch" -- "The time has come for Christians and churches to act". A founder of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, William Jay was one of the most prolific and influential abolitionists of his day, yet Americans know little about him. This is the first extensive examination of his life and work in over 100 years. Like many of his contemporaries, Jay looked at a rapidly changing America and it frightened him. As a conservative social reformer, it was not merely sinfulness that alarmed Jay, but the perception that America was betraying its founding principles. From his early involvement in local temperance societies to his conversion to the cause of immediate AbolitionistsUnited StatesBiographyAnti-imperialist movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsNew York (State)History19th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial reformersUnited StatesBiographyAbolitionistsAnti-imperialist movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistorySocial reformers326/.8/092BBudney Stephen P.1950-1631536DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910817477203321William Jay3970375UNINA