The abolitionist movement
By: Claudine L. Ferrell.
Series: Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "In matters of right and equity" : from Quakers to revolution; title: "Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other" : slavery and anti-slavery in the new nation; title: "Though the heavens should fall" : abolitionism takes shape, the 1830s; title: "Contrary to the laws of God and the rights of man" : politics versus spirituality, the 1840s; title: "The storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : from politics and violence to freedom, the 1850s-1860s; title: Concluding interpretative essay.