Abolitionism : a very short introduction /

"From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, Richard S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Very short introductions ; 586.
Subjects:
Abolitionists > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Free African Americans > History.
Abolitionnistes > Biographies.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains affranchis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Free African Americans
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Slavery
Abolitionismus
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abolitionist Agitation in a World of Slavery and Pain
  • Early Abolitionism: Prophets vs. Profits
  • The Rise of Black Abolitionism and Global Anti-Slavery Struggles
  • The Time Is Now: The Rise of Immediate Abolition
  • The Abolitionist Crossroads
  • The Abolitionist Renaissance and the Coming of the Civil War
  • American Emancipations: Abolitionism in the Civil War Era
  • Abolitionist Endings in the Atlantic World and New Beginnings.

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