| Description |
x, 508 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Erratum slip inserted. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
Slavery and sin : the cultural background / David Brion Davis -- Who was an abolitionist? / Larry Gara -- Who defends the abolitionist? / Fawn M. Brodie -- Orange Scott : the Methodist evangelist as revolutionary / Donald G. Mathews -- The persistence of Wendell Phillips / Irving H. Bartlett -- Abolition's different drummer : Frederick Douglass / Benjamin Quarles -- The emancipation of the Negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack -- A brief for equality : the abolitionist reply to the racist myth, 1860-1865 / James M. McPherson -- "Iconoclasm has had its day" : abolitionists and freedmen in South Carolina / Willie Lee Rose -- The abolitionist critique of the United States Constitution / Staughton Lynd -- Antislavery and utopia / John L. Thomas -- The psychology of commitment : the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society / Silvan S. Tomkins -- "A sacred animosity" : abolitionism in Canada / Robin W. Winks. |
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The British and American abolitionists compared / Howard R. Temperley -- Ambiguities in the antislavery crusade of the Republican party / Robert F. Durden -- The Northern response to slavery / Martin Duberman -- Abolitionists, freedom-riders, and the tactics of agitation / Howard Zinn. |
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Abolitionists -- United States.
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Antislavery movements -- United States.
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Esclavitud en EE.UU. -- Movimientos antiesclavistas.
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