num_pages: 272
description: Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause.
language: English
title: The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
titlecomplete: The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
genres: History, Race
ratings_count: 18
publisher: University of North Carolina Press