The transformation of American abolitionism
Subtitle: fighting slavery in the early Republic
By: Richard S. Newman.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Abolitionists -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 18th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Social change -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.
Based upon the author's dissertation.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE; title: Republican Strategists:; title: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society I6; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: Deferential Petitioners:; title: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society in State and; title: Federal Government, I790-I830 39; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: Creating Free Spaces:; title: Blacks and Abolitionist Activism in; title: Pennsylvania Courts, I78os-I83os 60; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: An Appeal to the Heart:; title: The Black Protest Tradition and the; title: Coming of Immediatism 86; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts,; title: from Colonization to Immediatism:; title: Race and the Overhaul of American Abolitionism I07; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: The New Abolitionist Imperative:; title: Mass Action Strategies 131; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: A Whole Lot of Shoe Leather:; title: Agents and the Impact of Grassroots Organizing; title: in Massachusetts during the I830os I52; title: EPILOGUE; title: The Struggle Continued I76; title: APPENDIX ONE; title: Letters from Maryland Slaveholders to Judge; title: William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania; title: Supreme Court, Regarding Fugitive Slaves 185; title: APPENDIX TWO; title: Maps; title: IA-D. Agent Travels in Massachusetts 188; title: 2. Liberator Subscriptions in Massachusetts, I830-I840 190; title: Notes 191; title: Selected Bibliography 229; title: Index 239.