The transformation of American abolitionism fighting slavery in the early Republic - ECU Libraries Catalog

The transformation of American abolitionism : fighting slavery in the early Republic / Richard S. Newman.

Author/creator	Newman, Richard S.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Description	xii, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Antislavery movements--United States --History --18th century. Antislavery movements--United States --History --19th century. Abolitionists--United States --History. African Americans--Politics and government --18th century. African Americans--Politics and government --19th century. Social change--United States --History --18th century. Social change--United States --History --19th century. United States--Race relations.

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Contents	Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE -- Republican Strategists: -- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society I6 -- CHAPTER TWO -- Deferential Petitioners: -- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society in State and -- Federal Government, I790-I830 39 -- CHAPTER THREE -- Creating Free Spaces: -- Blacks and Abolitionist Activism in -- Pennsylvania Courts, I78os-I83os 60 -- CHAPTER FOUR -- An Appeal to the Heart: -- The Black Protest Tradition and the -- Coming of Immediatism 86 -- CHAPTER FIVE -- From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, -- from Colonization to Immediatism: -- Race and the Overhaul of American Abolitionism I07 -- CHAPTER SIX -- The New Abolitionist Imperative: -- Mass Action Strategies 131 -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- A Whole Lot of Shoe Leather: -- Agents and the Impact of Grassroots Organizing -- in Massachusetts during the I830os I52 -- EPILOGUE -- The Struggle Continued I76 -- APPENDIX ONE -- Letters from Maryland Slaveholders to Judge -- William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania -- Supreme Court, Regarding Fugitive Slaves 185 -- APPENDIX TWO -- Maps -- IA-D. Agent Travels in Massachusetts 188 -- 2. Liberator Subscriptions in Massachusetts, I830-I840 190 -- Notes 191 -- Selected Bibliography 229 -- Index 239.
General note	Based upon the author's dissertation.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2001027913
ISBN	0807826715 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807849987 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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