Antislavery
Subtitle: the crusade for freedom in America
By: by Dwight Lowell Dumond
Series: Norton library -- N370; Norton library -- N370.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Copyright date: 1961
Subjects: Geschichte; Esclavage; Antislavery movements; Bekämpfung; Sklaverei; Mouvements anti-esclavagistes; Abschaffung
Description: This definitive history is the result of 30 years research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Perpetual servitude; title: Foundations of freedom; title: Impact of the revolution; title: Slavery and the constitution; title: Gradual emancipation; title: National policy; title: Slavery and political power; title: Foreign slave trade; title: Migrations to the free states; title: The old northwest; title: The Missouri contest; title: Insurrections; title: Free negroes; title: Colonization; title: Voices from the west; title: Pulpit and courtroom: an anthology; title: Impulses for reform; title: Lane Seminary; title: William Lloyd Garrison; title: The American Anti-Slavery Society; title: Theodore Weld: the agency system; title: Angelina Grimke: women's rights; title: James Gillespie Birney; title: Civil rights; title: The Prudence Crandall case; title: Lynch law; title: The higher law; title: The capital of the nation; title: Petitions; title: American slavery as it is; title: Birney and Thome; title: General literature; title: Women in the movement; title: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; title: The Liberty Party; title: Fugitive slaves and the people; title: Fugitive slaves and the law; title: Negro leaders; title: Here the slave found freedom; title: The churches; title: Labor; title: Free soil; title: The road to freedom.