Report of the Board of Managers of the New England Anti-Slavery Society
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
The Ties That Bind
Author : J. R. Oldfield
Publisher : Liverpool Studies in Internati
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 178962200X
Book Description
The Ties that Bind explores in depth the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, years that witnessed the overthrow of slavery in both the British Caribbean and the American South. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book sheds important new light on the dynamics of abolitionist opinion building during the Age of Reform, from books and artefacts to anti-slavery songs, lectures and placards. Building an anti-slavery public required patience and perseverance. It also involved an engagement with politics, even if anti-slavery activists disagreed about what form that engagement should take. This is a book about the importance of transatlantic co-operation and the transmission of ideas and practices. Yet, at the same time, it is also alert to the tensions that underlay these 'Atlantic affinities', particularly when it came to what was sometimes perceived as the increasing Americanization of anti-slavery protest culture. Above all, The Ties that Bind stresses the importance of personality, perhaps best exemplified in the enduring transatlantic friendship between George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison.
Annual Report Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society by Its Board of Managers
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN :
Book Description
Annual Report Presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society by Its Board of Managers
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Board of Managers
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN :
Book Description
Free Men All
Author : Thomas D. Morris
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Personal liberty laws
ISBN : 1584771070
Book Description
Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index
Annual Report and Proceedings
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 1851
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Book Description
The Liberty Line
Author : Larry Gara
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 081314356X
Book Description
" The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.
The Slaveholding Republic
Author : Don Edward Fehrenbacher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0195158059
Book Description
This volume analyses how the government of the United States effectively became an agent of the slaveholding interest, despite the fact that the nation had been founded upon ideals potentially hostile to the institution of slavery.
Abolitionism and American Law
Author : John R. McKivigan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815331094
Book Description
This volume's essays reveal that the abolitionists' impact on United States law and the Constitution did not end with the Civil War. The immediate postwar Reconstruction amendments were both rooted in the radically anti-positivistic, natural rights philosophy long espoused by the radical political abolitionists. Implementing protection for black civil rights, however, proved much more difficult.
Fugitive Texts
Author : Michaël Roy
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0299338401
Book Description
Antebellum slave narratives have taken pride of place in the American literary canon. One key aspect of the genre, however, has been left unexamined: its materiality. In Fugitive Texts, Michaël Roy offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture. Published to rave reviews in French, Fugitive Texts illuminates the heterogeneous nature of a genre often described in monolithic terms and ultimately paves the way for a redefinition of the literary form we have come to recognize as "the slave narrative."
