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 vii
... Freeman Clarke , Slavery in the United States ( 1843 ) Alexander McLeod , Negro Slavery Unjustifiable 539 63 ( 1802 and 1846 ) 70 Robert Dale Owen , The Wrong of Slavery ( 1864 ) 81 editorial ( 1831 ) Garrison , " Truisms " ( vii.
... Freeman Clarke , Slavery in the United States ( 1843 ) Alexander McLeod , Negro Slavery Unjustifiable 539 63 ( 1802 and 1846 ) 70 Robert Dale Owen , The Wrong of Slavery ( 1864 ) 81 editorial ( 1831 ) Garrison , " Truisms " ( vii.
Page xv
... wrong and that owning slaves was fundamen- tally a sin in the biblical sense of the term . These theological argu- ments gained some momentum in the early nineteenth century , but they were delivered by less powerful voices that those ...
... wrong and that owning slaves was fundamen- tally a sin in the biblical sense of the term . These theological argu- ments gained some momentum in the early nineteenth century , but they were delivered by less powerful voices that those ...
Page xxi
... wrong " and " sinful " had long been an argument of antislavery thinkers ; now the more contemporary rights of women and the scientific arguments that developed around the theory of evolution were engaged in the slavery debates ...
... wrong " and " sinful " had long been an argument of antislavery thinkers ; now the more contemporary rights of women and the scientific arguments that developed around the theory of evolution were engaged in the slavery debates ...
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... wrong , a violation of God's ordinances , and he cited Exo- dus 21.16 , which reads , " He that Stealeth a man and Selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to Death . " Similarly , Cotton Mather argued the ...
... wrong , a violation of God's ordinances , and he cited Exo- dus 21.16 , which reads , " He that Stealeth a man and Selleth him , or if he be found in his hand , he shall surely be put to Death . " Similarly , Cotton Mather argued the ...
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... wrong and that emancipation should be grad- ually adopted in the United States . Although he did not emancipate his own slaves until after his death , when some of his slaves were manumitted by the terms of his will , and although he is ...
... wrong and that emancipation should be grad- ually adopted in the United States . Although he did not emancipate his own slaves until after his death , when some of his slaves were manumitted by the terms of his will , and although he is ...
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.