| Description |
xx, 154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 578 |
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Very short introductions ; 578.
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| Summary |
"From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimké - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery - the most powerful economic and political institution of the age - across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers. Sharply written and highly readable, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression."-- Publisher information. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Abolitionist agitation in a world of slavery and pain -- Early abolitionism: prophets versus profits -- The rise of black abolitionism and global antislavery struggles -- The time is now: The rise of immediate abolition -- The abolitionist crossroads -- The abolitionist renaissance and the coming of the Civil War -- American emancipations: abolitionism in the Civil War era -- Epilogue: Abolitionist endings in the Atlantic world and new beginnings. |
| Subject |
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Abolitionismus (DE-588)4302520-1
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
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Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
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Free African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00933834
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Subject |
Slavery -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
(OCoLC)fst01120540
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Abolitionists -- Biography.
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Free African Americans -- History.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Newman, Richard S. Very short introductions. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190213237 (DLC) 2018016508 |
| ISBN |
9780190213220 (paperback) |
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0190213221 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40028430784 |
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