The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the SlavesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2004 M03 5 - 246 páginas The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented provocative speeches that, for the first time, addressed the slaves directly rather than aiming rebukes at white owners. By forthrightly embracing the slaves as allies and exhorting them to take action, these three addresses pointed toward a more inclusive and aggressive antislavery effort. These addresses were particularly frightening to white slaveholders who were significantly in the minority of the population in some parts of low country Georgia and South Carolina. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism includes the full text of each address, as well as related documents, and presents a detailed study of their historical context, the reactions they provoked, and their lasting impact on U.S. history. |
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... masters , he says , were descendants of American revolu- tionaries who " for seven years waged war against [ Great Britain's ] despotic power . " The masters honored those who in the Declaration of Independence asserted a right to ...
... masters have no more right to enslave you , than you have to enslave them - to sell your children , and lacer- ate your bodies , and take your lives , than you have to inflict these outrages on them and theirs . The complexion of your ...
... masters threaten , that if we do not stop pleading your cause , and assailing their slave system , they will dissolve the Union . Such a dissolution has for us no terrors ; for we regard it as far preferable to a perpetuity of slavery ...
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Ambiguous Manifestos | 17 |
Circumstances | 37 |
Goals and Reactions | 71 |
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Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion [Two Volumes] ABC-CLIO, LLC,Harcourt Education Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |