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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... and his writings lack the invective that characterizes Garrison's tracts and the rhetorical strategies that give Douglass's writings so much power . Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1895 ) was born into slavery , GENERAL INTRODUCTION xxix.
... and his writings lack the invective that characterizes Garrison's tracts and the rhetorical strategies that give Douglass's writings so much power . Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1895 ) was born into slavery , GENERAL INTRODUCTION xxix.
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... give the Fourth of July oration for 1852 by the Rochester , New York , Antislav- ery Society . He refused . But he did give this powerful address on July 5 , 1852 , to a large audience . The hypocrisies and inconsisten- cies of American ...
... give the Fourth of July oration for 1852 by the Rochester , New York , Antislav- ery Society . He refused . But he did give this powerful address on July 5 , 1852 , to a large audience . The hypocrisies and inconsisten- cies of American ...
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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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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.