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 viii
... Called Africans ( 1833 ) 154 William Ellery Channing , Slavery ( 1835 ) 176 Gerrit Smith , " Letter to the Rev. Smylie " ( 1837 ) 192 Angelina Grimké , An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South ( 1836 ) 197 Sarah Moore Grimké , " An ...
... Called Africans ( 1833 ) 154 William Ellery Channing , Slavery ( 1835 ) 176 Gerrit Smith , " Letter to the Rev. Smylie " ( 1837 ) 192 Angelina Grimké , An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South ( 1836 ) 197 Sarah Moore Grimké , " An ...
Page xvi
... called for " immediate , unconditional emancipa- tion , " without compensation to the slaveowners . These abolition- ists were characterized by a militant and demanding tone and by exceptional organizational skills , so that their ...
... called for " immediate , unconditional emancipa- tion , " without compensation to the slaveowners . These abolition- ists were characterized by a militant and demanding tone and by exceptional organizational skills , so that their ...
Page xviii
... Called Africans ( 1833 ) , which was an early and militant call for unconditional emancipation without compensation to slaveowners and an argument for full political and social equality of blacks and whites . Like William Lloyd Garrison ...
... Called Africans ( 1833 ) , which was an early and militant call for unconditional emancipation without compensation to slaveowners and an argument for full political and social equality of blacks and whites . Like William Lloyd Garrison ...
Page xxii
... Called Africans with the tone and style of Douglass's first of three autobiographical accounts , A Narrative of the Life of an American Slave , Frederick Douglass , Written by Himself ( 1845 ) or Harriet Jacobs's autobiographical nar ...
... Called Africans with the tone and style of Douglass's first of three autobiographical accounts , A Narrative of the Life of an American Slave , Frederick Douglass , Written by Himself ( 1845 ) or Harriet Jacobs's autobiographical nar ...
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.