Antislavery and abolition in Philadelphia
Subtitle: emancipation and the long struggle for racial justice in the City of Brotherly Love
By: edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller
Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world; Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780807139912; 9780807139929; 9780807139936; 9780807139943
Subjects: Free African Americans; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery, freedom, and Philadelphia's struggle for brotherly love, 1685 to 1861 / Ira Berlin; title: The origins of antislavery in Pennsylvania : early abolitionists and Benjamin Franklin's Road not taken / David Waldstreicher; title: Self-help and self-determination : Black Philadelphians and the dimensions of freedom / Julie Winch; title: Race and citizenship in the early republic / Gary Nash; title: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the struggle for racial justice / Richard Newman; title: Philadelphia abolitionists and antislavery cosmopolitanism / W. Caleb McDaniel; title: From natural rights to national sins : Philadelphia's churches face antislavery / Dee E. Andrews; title: Staging slavery : representing race and abolitionism on and off the Philadelphia stage / Heather S. Nathans; title: "Beautiful providences" : William Still, the Vigilance Committee, and abolitionists in the age of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon.