Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Author: Phillis WheatleyThoughts Upon Slavery
Author: John Wesley1829-1836
Author: James MadisonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830
Author: Stephen AhernPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409455615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery at the turn of the nineteenth century. The contributors examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises, and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.
Ain't I A Woman?
Author: Sojourner TruthPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241472377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Letters and Other Writings of James Madison ...: 1829-1836
Author: James MadisonLetters and Other Writings of James Madison
Author: James MadisonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
Author: James OakesPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324005866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Author: David WalkerPublisher:
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description