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
... suffered when required by his employer , a New Jersey lawyer , to write an indenture of sale for the purchase of a slave . Moreover , slavery was challenged by natural rights theorists of the Enlightenment , and it is one of the ironies ...
... suffered when required by his employer , a New Jersey lawyer , to write an indenture of sale for the purchase of a slave . Moreover , slavery was challenged by natural rights theorists of the Enlightenment , and it is one of the ironies ...
Page xviii
... suffered disapproval not only from her fellow Bostonians , but also from her father and sibling members of her own family . The " women's sphere " had been violated in two specific ways in Lydia Child's treatise . First , as a woman she ...
... suffered disapproval not only from her fellow Bostonians , but also from her father and sibling members of her own family . The " women's sphere " had been violated in two specific ways in Lydia Child's treatise . First , as a woman she ...
Page xxiii
... suffering of the slave , the core of their argument was the essential unity of whites with blacks . Although many Garrisonians believed in bio- logical differences between the races , their politics ignored physical , cultural , and ...
... suffering of the slave , the core of their argument was the essential unity of whites with blacks . Although many Garrisonians believed in bio- logical differences between the races , their politics ignored physical , cultural , and ...
Page xxviii
... suffered his entire life the dis- crimination practiced against Negroes in nineteenth - century Amer- ica . Thus Garrison was a highly controversial leader of the abolitionist movement when viewed from a public perspective . Abraham ...
... suffered his entire life the dis- crimination practiced against Negroes in nineteenth - century Amer- ica . Thus Garrison was a highly controversial leader of the abolitionist movement when viewed from a public perspective . Abraham ...
Page xxx
... suffering as a plantation hand , and he was early separated from his mother , who worked as a field hand some twelve miles distant . His recollection of the few meetings he ever had with his mother are some of the most moving lines of ...
... suffering as a plantation hand , and he was early separated from his mother , who worked as a field hand some twelve miles distant . His recollection of the few meetings he ever had with his mother are some of the most moving lines of ...
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
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.