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 xvi
... racial equality , with special emphasis on politi- cal and social equality , and he was joined by the Garrisonians , who not only argued for equality and for an end to racial prejudice , but who emphatically called for " immediate ...
... racial equality , with special emphasis on politi- cal and social equality , and he was joined by the Garrisonians , who not only argued for equality and for an end to racial prejudice , but who emphatically called for " immediate ...
Page xviii
... called for equality among the races , at least socially and politically , and the fears this doctrine inspired among white Americans both north and south of the Mason - Dixon line were to keep segregation alive xviii GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
... called for equality among the races , at least socially and politically , and the fears this doctrine inspired among white Americans both north and south of the Mason - Dixon line were to keep segregation alive xviii GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
Page xix
... race - theory debates that were raging in both Europe and the United States during the early decades of the nine- teenth century , and modern readers should consider that the aboli- tionists were confronted by extremely hostile racial ...
... race - theory debates that were raging in both Europe and the United States during the early decades of the nine- teenth century , and modern readers should consider that the aboli- tionists were confronted by extremely hostile racial ...
Page xx
... race prejudice ( which the Garrisonians saw as inextricably linked ) . It would also mean taking significant physi ... racial - equality doctrines , and in 1830 he was convicted of libel and imprisoned . These antebellum slavery debates ...
... race prejudice ( which the Garrisonians saw as inextricably linked ) . It would also mean taking significant physi ... racial - equality doctrines , and in 1830 he was convicted of libel and imprisoned . These antebellum slavery debates ...
Page xxiii
... race theorists who considered the African inferior to the white . As historian John Thomas put it , Some Southern ... racial prejudice and their goal the development of white empathy for the suffering of the slave , the core of their ...
... race theorists who considered the African inferior to the white . As historian John Thomas put it , Some Southern ... racial prejudice and their goal the development of white empathy for the suffering of the slave , the core of their ...
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
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.