The transformation of American abolitionism : fighting slavery in the early Republic /
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Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Abolitionist transformations
- Republican strategists: the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
- Deferential petitioners: the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in state and federal government, 1790-1830
- Creating free spaces: Blacks and abolitionist activism in Pennsylvania courts, 1780s-1830s
- An appeal to the heart: the Black protest tradition and the coming of immediatism
- From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, from colonization to immediatism: race and the overhaul of American abolitionism
- The new abolitionist imperative: mass action strategies
- A whole lot of shoe leather: agents and the impact of grassroots organizing in Massachusetts during the 1830s
- The struggle continued
- Appendix one. Letters from Maryland slaveholders to Judge William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, regarding fugitive slaves
- Appendix two. Maps
- Maps 1A-D. Agent travels in Massachusetts
- Map 2. Liberator subscriptions in Massachusetts, 1830-1840
- Notes.