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The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism : Addresses to the Slaves /

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 exhorti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrold, Stanley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ambiguous manifestos
  • Circumstances
  • Proceedings
  • Goals and reactions
  • Abolitionists and slaves
  • Convergence
  • THE ADDRESSES AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
  • "Address of the Anti-slavery Convention of the State of New York to the slaves in the U. States of America" / Gerrit Smith
  • "Rights of a fugitive slave" / Nathaniel E. Johnson
  • "Address to the slaves of the United States" / William Lloyd Garrison
  • "An address to the slaves of the United States of America" / Henry Highland Garnet
  • "A letter to the American slaves from those who have fled from American slavery" / Gerrit Smith.