Abolitionism - A Very Short Introduction Newman Richard S. Professor of History Rochester Institute of TechnologyPaperback / softback
Abolitionism - A Very Short Introduction Newman Richard S. Professor of History Rochester Institute of TechnologyPaperback / softback From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era…
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Abolitionism - A Very Short Introduction Newman Richard S. Professor of History Rochester Institute of TechnologyPaperback / softback
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. In this succinct narrative, Richard S.
From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimk� - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery - the most