ISBN:
9780190213237
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (175 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Very Short Introductions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Newman, Richard S., 1967 - Abolitionism
DDC:
326/.8092
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Abolitionists
;
Antislavery movements
;
HISTORY
;
Slavery
;
United States
;
Biography
;
History
;
Einführung
;
Abolitionismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
A fresh synthesis of the abolitionist movement and ideas in the Anglo-American world.
Abstract:
Cover -- Richard S. Newman Abolitionism A Very Short Introduction -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abolitionist agitation in a world of slavery and pain -- Abolitionism 101: Who, where, how, why? -- Abolitionists and human rights -- Abolitionism agitators and the triumph of reform -- Chapter 1: Early abolitionism -- Slavery's profits versus abolitionist prophets -- Abolitionist Friends -- Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution -- Abolitionist activism after 1776 -- Abolition and the U.S. Constitution -- Abolitionism at one hundred -- Chapter 2: The rise of black abolitionism and global antislavery struggles -- Saint-Domingue -- Black abolitionism in the United States -- Slave trade abolition and the second slavery -- Black protest redux -- David Walker -- Abolitionist media -- Chapter 3: The time is now -- Radical black protest and British abolitionists -- Immediate abolition -- Core abolitionists: African Americans and women -- The grind: antislavery work -- Bold activism -- The anti-abolitionist wall in the North -- Chapter 4: The abolitionist crossroads -- Abolitionist divisions: From the woman question to antislavery political parties -- Abolitionist synergies -- Global abolitionism in the 1840s -- Racial divisions in transatlantic abolition -- White radicals and confrontational abolitionism -- The Underground Railroad -- The North Star international -- Chapter 5: The abolitionist renaissance and the coming of the Civil War -- The Fugitive Slave Law and the abolitionist renaissance -- A literary renaissance -- Black abolitionist renaissance -- Abolitionist politics and the abolitionist constitution -- The rise of the Republican Party -- Chapter 6: American emancipations -- John Brown: abolitionist -- Abolition, secession, and war.
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