The abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861 /
Within the American antislavery movement that reached its peak during the thirty years before the Civil War, abolitionists were the most outspoken opponents of slavery. They were also distinct from other members of the movement in advocating, on the basis of moral principle, the immediate emancipati...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1999.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=50461 |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- The South in antislavery history
- An image of a Southern white emancipator
- An image of a Southern Black liberator
- John Brown's forerunners
- Preaching an abolitionist gospel in the South
- Antislavery colonies in the upper South
- The intersectional politics of Southern abolitionism
- Legacies
- Notes.