Author: Mary Stoughton LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade
Author: Mary Stoughton LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution
Author: J. R. OldfieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
An in-depth, comparative study of transatlantic abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
Author: Carter Godwin WoodsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Ragged Road to Abolition
Author: James J. Gigantino, IIPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they had served their mother's master for more than two decades, slavery continued in New Jersey through the Civil War. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 finally destroyed its last vestiges. The Ragged Road to Abolition chronicles the experiences of slaves and free blacks, as well as abolitionists and slaveholders, during slavery's slow northern death. Abolition in New Jersey during the American Revolution was a contested battle, in which constant economic devastation and fears of freed blacks overrunning the state government limited their ability to gain freedom. New Jersey's gradual abolition law kept at least a quarter of the state's black population in some degree of bondage until the 1830s. The sustained presence of slavery limited African American community formation and forced Jersey blacks to structure their households around multiple gradations of freedom while allowing New Jersey slaveholders to participate in the interstate slave trade until the 1850s. Slavery's persistence dulled white understanding of the meaning of black freedom and helped whites to associate "black" with "slave," enabling the further marginalization of New Jersey's growing free black population. By demonstrating how deeply slavery influenced the political, economic, and social life of blacks and whites in New Jersey, this illuminating study shatters the perceived easy dichotomies between North and South or free states and slave states at the onset of the Civil War.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
Author: Carter Godwin WoodsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 is a book by C.G. Woodson. It provides a history of the education of negroes in the US from the beginning of slavery to the end of the Civil War.
Publications - Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women
Author: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second[-eighth] Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Standard-Bearers of Equality
Author: Paul J. PolgarPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146965394X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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 unearths this coalition's comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality. By guarding and expanding the rights of people of African descent and demonstrating that black Americans could become virtuous citizens of the new Republic, these activists, whom Polgar names "first movement abolitionists," sought to end white prejudice and eliminate racial inequality. Beginning in the 1820s, however, colonization threatened to eclipse this racially inclusive movement. Colonizationists claimed that what they saw as permanent black inferiority and unconquerable white prejudice meant that slavery could end only if those freed were exiled from the United States. In pulling many reformers into their orbit, this radically different antislavery movement marginalized the activism of America's first abolitionists and obscured the racially progressive origins of American abolitionism that Polgar now recaptures. By reinterpreting the early history of American antislavery, Polgar illustrates that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are as integral to histories of race, rights, and reform in the United States as the mid-nineteenth century.
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution
Author: Edward G. GrayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190257768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides.
A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Author: Publisher: Martino Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description