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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Boston Mob of "gentlemen of Property and Standing."
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Gentlemen of Property and Standing
Author: Leonard L. RichardsPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A generation before the Civil War, riots flared up in many northern cities. In New York, Boston, Utica, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, tormented free blacks, and razed the Negro quarters; and in Illinois, the newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy was slain. This book examines what motivated these zealous northern anti-abolitionists.
The Boston Gentlemen's Mob
Author: Josh S. CutlerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439673977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other "gentlemen of property and standing" angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the courage to speak out. Author Josh Cutler tells the story of the Gentlemen's Mob through the eyes of four key participants: antislavery reformer Maria Chapman; pioneering schoolteacher Susan Paul; the city's establishment mayor, Theodore Lyman; and Wendell Phillips, a young attorney who wanders out of his office to watch the spectacle. The day's events forever changed the course of the abolitionist movement.
The Trial of Theodore Parker for the “Misdemeanor” of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the Defence, by Theodore Parker
Author: Theodore PARKERThe Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts
Author: Amber D. MoultonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674286251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway, reinforced by a law prohibiting “amalgamation”—marriage between whites and blacks. The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts chronicles a grassroots movement to overturn the state’s ban on interracial unions. Assembling information from court and church records, family histories, and popular literature, Amber D. Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what, in the eyes of the state’s antislavery constituency, appeared to be an indefensible injustice. Initially, activists argued that the ban provided a legal foundation for white supremacy in Massachusetts. But laws that enforced racial hierarchy remained popular even in Northern states, and the movement gained little traction. To attract broader support, the reformers recalibrated their arguments along moral lines, insisting that the prohibition on interracial unions weakened the basis of all marriage, by encouraging promiscuity, prostitution, and illegitimacy. Through trial and error, reform leaders shaped an appeal that ultimately drew in Garrisonian abolitionists, equal rights activists, antislavery evangelicals, moral reformers, and Yankee legislators, all working to legalize interracial marriage. This pre–Civil War effort to overturn Massachusetts’ antimiscegenation law was not a political aberration but a crucial chapter in the deep history of the African American struggle for equal rights, on a continuum with the civil rights movement over a century later.
Locomotive Firemen's Magazine
Author: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen's Magazine
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
Author: Old Anti-slavery Days
Author: Danvers Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Annual Report and Proceedings
Author: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery SocietyPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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