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The abolitionist movement

Presents a narrative overview of the history of the abolitionist movement in America, providing information on its religious beginnings, its conflicts, and its key figures, including Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and more
Print Book, English, 2006
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2006
xx, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
9780313331800, 0313331804
61200655
"In matters of right and equity" : from Quakers to revolution
"Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other" : slavery and anti-slavery in the new nation
"Though the heavens should fall" : abolitionism takes shape, the 1830s
"Contrary to the laws of God and the rights of man" : politics versus spirituality, the 1840s
"The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : from politics and violence to freedom, the 1850s-1860s
Concluding interpretative essay