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Author Stewart, James Brewer.

Title Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War / James Brewer Stewart.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2008]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.711 STEWART    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From moral suasion to political confrontation : American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 -- Modernizing "difference" : the political meanings of color in the free states, 1776-1840 -- The Roberts case, the Easton family, and the dynamics of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts, 1776-1870 (co-authored with George R. Price) -- William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and the symmetry of autobiography : charisma and the character of abolitionist leadership -- Joshua Giddings, antislavery violence, and the politics of congressional honor -- The orator and the insurrectionist -- The New Haven Negro College and the dynamics of race in New England, 1776-1870 -- Reconsidering the abolitionists in an age of fundamentalist politics.
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Abolitionists -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Radicalism -- United States -- History.
Equality -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1899
Other Form: Online version: Stewart, James Brewer. Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608551565
ISBN 9781558496347 library cloth alkaline paper
1558496343 library cloth alkaline paper
9781558496354 paperback alkaline paper
1558496351 paperback alkaline paper
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