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 xiv
... slaveholders to own human beings . Americans began debating the slavery issue in the late seven- teenth century , when the Quakers , who had opposed slavery in Great Britain , developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery ...
... slaveholders to own human beings . Americans began debating the slavery issue in the late seven- teenth century , when the Quakers , who had opposed slavery in Great Britain , developed arguments against the expansion of chattel slavery ...
Page xxvi
... slaveholders , " effec- tively declaring that the North should secede from the South . By the late 1850s , it appeared that the South might indeed secede from the North , and imminent disunion was an enormous threat to politicians like ...
... slaveholders , " effec- tively declaring that the North should secede from the South . By the late 1850s , it appeared that the South might indeed secede from the North , and imminent disunion was an enormous threat to politicians like ...
Page xxxiv
... slaveholders and gain sympathizers by appealing directly to the individual conscience . They broadcast their indictment in their own press , organized societies and wrote pamphlets , compiled statistics and circulated petitions , all ...
... slaveholders and gain sympathizers by appealing directly to the individual conscience . They broadcast their indictment in their own press , organized societies and wrote pamphlets , compiled statistics and circulated petitions , all ...
Page xxxv
... slaveholders , " a position that placed the North clearly in the posi- tion of seceding from the slaveholding South . Finally , emancipation required all the forces drawn together , if not working together , to bring an end to the ...
... slaveholders , " a position that placed the North clearly in the posi- tion of seceding from the slaveholding South . Finally , emancipation required all the forces drawn together , if not working together , to bring an end to the ...
Page xl
... Slaveholders Made . New York : Random House , 1974 . Gougeon , Len . Emerson's Antislavery Writings . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1988 . - Virtue's Hero : Emerson , Antislavery , and Reform . Athens : Univer- sity of Georgia ...
... Slaveholders Made . New York : Random House , 1974 . Gougeon , Len . Emerson's Antislavery Writings . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1988 . - Virtue's Hero : Emerson , Antislavery , and Reform . Athens : Univer- sity of Georgia ...
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.