The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the SlavesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M10 17 - 256 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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... south to help them. On August 17, 1843, black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, a Presbyterian clergyman, advised faraway slaves that they had better die in confrontations with their oppressors than remain in bondage. But he then ...
... help us to understand which abolitionists pioneered more aggressive action toward the South and how abolitionists fit into the broader sectional struggle that led to the Civil War in 1861. The origins of the American antislavery ...
... South. Slave unrest seemed to have revived. Antiabolitionist sentiment in the North had weakened. Railroads had begun to speed travel from the Northeast to the Chesapeake. A few abolitionists had gone south to help slaves escape ...
... southern, against African Americans (and American Indians) enjoying the same rights as whites. Under federal law, it was a crime throughout the country to help slaves escape. Public opinion North and South supported slavery. Proslavery ...
... help them on their way. Crediting abolitionists rather than slaves with the increase in northward escapes, he claims ... South's peculiar institution would soon peacefully expire. But he also asserts that the slave revolts aboard the ...
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Chapter 3 Proceedings | 53 |
Chapter 4 Goals and Reactions | 71 |
Chapter 5 Abolitionists and Slaves | 97 |
Chapter 6 Convergence | 117 |
Conclusion | 141 |
The Addressesand Related Documents | 151 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 239 |
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The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves Stanley Harrold Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves Stanley Harrold Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |