03029nam 2200649 a 450 991081880050332120200520144314.0979-88-908741-9-10-8078-6045-X(CKB)1000000000008063(EBL)413375(OCoLC)476237212(SSID)ssj0000261311(PQKBManifestationID)11191979(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261311(PQKBWorkID)10256663(PQKB)10623671(MiAaPQ)EBC413375(EXLCZ)99100000000000806320010507d2002 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe transformation of American abolitionism fighting slavery in the early Republic /Richard S. NewmanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20021 online resource (270 p.)Based upon the author's dissertation.0-8078-2671-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.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;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.Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory18th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAbolitionistsUnited StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansPolitics and government18th centuryAfrican AmericansPolitics and government19th centurySocial changeUnited StatesHistory18th centurySocial changeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsAntislavery movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryAbolitionistsHistory.African AmericansPolitics and governmentAfrican AmericansPolitics and governmentSocial changeHistorySocial changeHistory326.8/0973Newman Richard S216218MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818800503321The Transformation of American Abolitionism3941842UNINA