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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... Judge Samuel Sewall penned The Selling of Joseph , an antislavery pamphlet that criticized American chattel slavery by invoking biblical precedents . The final documents included here are Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence ...
... Judge Samuel Sewall penned The Selling of Joseph , an antislavery pamphlet that criticized American chattel slavery by invoking biblical precedents . The final documents included here are Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence ...
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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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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
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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.