Description |
266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Series |
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture |
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-252) and index. |
Contents |
David Ruggles -- Map of the Ruggles family plot, Bean Hill, Norwich, Connecticut -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Marquis de Lafayette -- Samuel Eli Cornish -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Lewis Tappan -- Title page of The "Extinguisher" extinguished! -- Title page of A Brief Review of the First Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society -- Title page of The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment -- Kidnapping -- Title page of First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance -- Narratives of several freeborn people of colour -- Arrest of the slave George Kirk -- Title page of An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination Recently prepared by a "Citizen of New York" -- Title page of Mirror of Liberty -- 36 Lispenard Street -- Arrest of Captain James Dayton Wilson by David Ruggles -- Frederick Douglass -- James W.C. Pennington -- Isaac T. Hooper -- The disappointed abolitionists -- Title page of A Plea for "A man and a brother" -- William Cooper Nell -- Lydia Maria child -- David Lee Child -- Sojourner truth -- Advertisement for David Ruggles's water-cure hospital -- David Ruggles's home in Florence, Massachusetts -- Ruggles family grave site, Yantic cemetery, Norwich, Conneticut. |
Summary |
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was of one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the South. |
Subject |
Ruggles, David, 1810-1849.
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Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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African American abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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African American abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Underground Railroad -- Massachusetts.
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Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- History.
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ISBN |
9780807833261 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807833266 cloth alkaline paper |
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