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 ix
... Institution of Slavery " ( 1852 ) 266 Theodore Parker , The Function and Place of Conscience in Relation to the Laws of Men ( 1850 ) , ed . Dean Grodzins Parker , " Present Aspect of the Antislavery Enterprise , " Speech to the American ...
... Institution of Slavery " ( 1852 ) 266 Theodore Parker , The Function and Place of Conscience in Relation to the Laws of Men ( 1850 ) , ed . Dean Grodzins Parker , " Present Aspect of the Antislavery Enterprise , " Speech to the American ...
Page xiv
... institution in the mid - eighteenth cen- tury . The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery , and one among them , John Woolman , eloquently told of the anguish of con- science he suffered when required by his employer , a New ...
... institution in the mid - eighteenth cen- tury . The Quaker meetings collectively opposed slavery , and one among them , John Woolman , eloquently told of the anguish of con- science he suffered when required by his employer , a New ...
Page xv
... institution of slavery was officially ended in the United States through the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution . “ Antislav- ery " is a sweeping phrase that refers to those individuals and groups who opposed the enslavement of ...
... institution of slavery was officially ended in the United States through the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution . “ Antislav- ery " is a sweeping phrase that refers to those individuals and groups who opposed the enslavement of ...
Page xviii
... institutions , and the assumption of absolute human equality as a first principle of morality and politics . Both ... institutional analysis permitted Garrisonian women to escape the control of the clergy and move beyond pietistic ...
... institutions , and the assumption of absolute human equality as a first principle of morality and politics . Both ... institutional analysis permitted Garrisonian women to escape the control of the clergy and move beyond pietistic ...
Page xxi
... institution " was justified in Scripture by God himself . The abolitionists vigorously opposed this view , and they joined the moral suasion of earlier antislavery advocates to the more militant and aggressive arguments of cru- saders ...
... institution " was justified in Scripture by God himself . The abolitionists vigorously opposed this view , and they joined the moral suasion of earlier antislavery advocates to the more militant and aggressive arguments of cru- saders ...
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
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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.