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... movement indicates that traditional assumptions concerning the nature and locus of abolitionist radicalism during the period from 1840 to 1860 must be revised . Histo- rians have almost universally viewed the American abolition- ists ...
... movement were bi- racial . Slave unrest during the early 1700s , Quaker humani- tarianism and nonviolence , the black freedom struggle during the era of the American Revolution , and , especially , religious revivalism during the early ...
... movement.5 Thereafter the geographical and cultural distance in- creased between northern abolitionists and those ... movements , and a high literacy rate , as vastly superior to a pre - modern South , committed to slavery , illit- eracy ...
... movement , dedicated to immediate emancipation and equal rights for African Americans in the United States , be- gan to emerge . It took form in Baltimore , Boston , New York , and Philadelphia . Briefly it appeared that this new movement ...
... movement and the fo- cus of their efforts . The tactics they employed for a decade- concentration on the North , appeals to white morality , to the churches , and to politicians - seemed to be inadequate.14 This perception contributed ...
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AMBIGUOUS MANIFESTOS | 17 |
CIRCUMSTANCES | 37 |
PROCEEDINGS | 53 |
GOALS AND REACTIONS | 71 |
ABOLITIONISTS AND SLAVES | 97 |
CONVERGENCE | 117 |
CONCLUSION | 137 |
ADDRESS OF THE ANTISLAVERY CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF NEWYORK HELD IN PETERBORO JANUARY 19TH 1842 TO THE SL... | 149 |
RIGHTS OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE NATHANIEL E JOHNSON | 159 |
ADDRESS TO THE SLAVES OF THE UNITED STATES WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON | 165 |
AN ADDRESS TO THE SLAVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REJECTED BY THE NATIONAL CONVENTION 1848 HENRY HIG... | 175 |
A LETTER TO THE AMERICAN SLAVES FROM THOSE WHO HAVE FLED FROM AMERICAN SLAVERY GERRIT SMITH | 185 |
NOTES | 193 |
Bibliography | 219 |
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