Against Slavery: An Abolitionist ReaderMason Lowance Penguin, 2000 M02 1 - 384 pages "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Page xiv
... North America , but their voices were muted compared to the overwhelming economic development of the plantation system in the Southern colonies . Early opponents of slavery were primarily religious figures , like the founder of ...
... North America , but their voices were muted compared to the overwhelming economic development of the plantation system in the Southern colonies . Early opponents of slavery were primarily religious figures , like the founder of ...
Page xvi
... North , and this figure had risen to 250,000 by 1820. By contrast , the same census showed that in 1790 there were some 700,000 African slaves in the United States . By 1820 , there were over 1 million slaves con- centrated in the ...
... North , and this figure had risen to 250,000 by 1820. By contrast , the same census showed that in 1790 there were some 700,000 African slaves in the United States . By 1820 , there were over 1 million slaves con- centrated in the ...
Page xviii
... North and the South , and like Garri- son , she suffered disapproval not only from her fellow Bostonians , but also ... North and South . Second , her argument had called for equality among the races , at least socially and politically ...
... North and the South , and like Garri- son , she suffered disapproval not only from her fellow Bostonians , but also ... North and South . Second , her argument had called for equality among the races , at least socially and politically ...
Page xix
... North and South , long after arguments for educational civil rights had been advanced by educators and civil rights activists . Associated with the antislavery movement of the early nine- teenth century were prominent New England names ...
... North and South , long after arguments for educational civil rights had been advanced by educators and civil rights activists . Associated with the antislavery movement of the early nine- teenth century were prominent New England names ...
Page xxii
... North or into further escape into Canada . Finally , the abolitionists represented in this volume were op- posed to the objectives of the American Colonization Society , which had been organized in 1817 with the goal of removing the ...
... North or into further escape into Canada . Finally , the abolitionists represented in this volume were op- posed to the objectives of the American Colonization Society , which had been organized in 1817 with the goal of removing the ...
Contents
V | 7 |
VI | 11 |
VIII | 14 |
IX | 15 |
X | 17 |
XI | 18 |
XIII | 21 |
XIV | 24 |
LI | 193 |
LII | 199 |
LIII | 203 |
LIV | 216 |
LV | 220 |
LVII | 224 |
LX | 225 |
LXI | 226 |
XV | 25 |
XVI | 27 |
XVII | 34 |
XVIII | 35 |
XIX | 43 |
XX | 45 |
XXI | 49 |
XXII | 55 |
XXIII | 56 |
XXIV | 59 |
XXV | 66 |
XXVI | 77 |
XXVII | 81 |
XXVIII | 83 |
XXIX | 88 |
XXX | 89 |
XXXI | 99 |
XXXII | 101 |
XXXIII | 104 |
XXXIV | 108 |
XXXV | 113 |
XXXVI | 115 |
XXXVII | 118 |
XXXVIII | 121 |
XXXIX | 127 |
XL | 129 |
XLI | 140 |
XLII | 145 |
XLVI | 150 |
XLVII | 156 |
XLVIII | 172 |
XLIX | 173 |
L | 188 |
LXII | 231 |
LXIII | 232 |
LXIV | 237 |
LXV | 238 |
LXVI | 242 |
LXVII | 248 |
LXVIII | 249 |
LXIX | 252 |
LXX | 253 |
LXXI | 254 |
LXXII | 255 |
LXXIII | 256 |
LXXIV | 257 |
LXXV | 258 |
LXXVI | 260 |
LXXVII | 262 |
LXXIX | 269 |
LXXX | 271 |
LXXXI | 281 |
LXXXII | 287 |
LXXXIII | 290 |
LXXXIV | 292 |
LXXXV | 297 |
LXXXVI | 299 |
LXXXVII | 309 |
LXXXVIII | 310 |
LXXXIX | 317 |
XC | 318 |
XCI | 320 |
XCII | 321 |
XCIII | 328 |
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Common terms and phrases
abolition Abolitionism abolitionist abolitionist crusade abolitionist movement advocates African American American Antislavery Society American slavery Angelina Grimké antebellum Antislavery Society Appeal argued arguments authority Beecher Bible blood bondage Boston brethren called Canaan cause chattel slavery Christian church citizens Civil claimant colonization colored Constitution court crime cruelty curse Declaration degradation doctrine duty emancipation England enslave equality escape evil existence father Frederick Douglass freedom Garrisonians Grimké heart hold human institution John John Greenleaf Whittier jury justice liberty Lydia Maria Child master ment moral nation Negro never North Northern oppressed person political prejudice principles proslavery punishment race racial reform religion sentiment service or labor slaveholders SOURCE NOTE South Southern spirit Stowe suffer Territory Theodore Dwight Weld thing tion truth Uncle Tom's Cabin United University Press Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison woman women write wrong York
Popular passages
Page xiii - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.