Standard-Bearers of Equality : America's First Abolition Movement /

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"Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unear...

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Main Author: Polgar, Paul J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated.
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated > History.
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery > History.
Race relations.
Antislavery movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > African American.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire.
Noirs americains affranchis > Activite politique.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États du Moyen-Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États du Moyen-Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Free African Americans > Political activity.
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 18th century.
United States.
Middle Atlantic States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The making of a movement : progress, problems, and the ambiguous origins of the abolitionist project
  • The "just rights of freedom" : enforcing and expanding gradual emancipation
  • Republicans of color : societal environmentalism and the quest for black citizenship
  • "A well grounded hope" : sweeping away the cobwebs of prejudice
  • "Unconquerable prejudice" and "alien enemies" : the roots and rise of the American Colonization Society
  • A prudent alternative or a dangerous diversion? First movement abolitionists respond to colonization.

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