Antislavery violence : sectional, racial, and cultural conflict in antebellum America / edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold.

Other author McKivigan, John R., 1949-
Other author Harrold, Stanley.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1999.
Description322 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The scenes which are acted in St. Domingo: the legacy of revolutionary violence in early national Virginia / Douglas R. Egerton -- Rebellion on the river road: the ideology and influence of Louisiana's German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811 / Junius Rodriguez -- Romanticizing slave revolt: Madison Washington, the Creole Mutiny, and abolitionist celebration of violent means / Stanley Harrold -- Active vigilance is the price of liberty: Black self-defense against fugitive slave recapture and kidnapping of free Blacks / Carol Wilson -- Fighting with breath, not blows: Frederick Douglass and antislavery violence / James H. Cook -- Joshua Giddings, antislavery violence, and congressional politics of honor / James Brewer Stewart -- Comeouterism and antislavery violence in Ohio's Western Reserve / Chris Padgett -- The ladies of Lawrence are arming!: the gendered nature of sectional violence in early Kansas / Kristen A. Tegtmeier -- Advent among the Indians: the revolutionary ethos of Gerrit Smith, James McCune Smith, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown / John Stauffer -- His soul goes marching on: the story of John Brown's followers after the Harpers Ferry Raid / John R. McKivigan.
Local noteLittle-321736--305131029157.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
LCCN 99006121
ISBN1572330597 (alk. paper)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E449 .A637 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold