The Black Abolitionist Papers: Vol. V
Subtitle: The United States, 1859-1865 (Black Abolitionist Papers)
Contributors: Michael F. Hembree (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780807820070
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Slavery & emancipation; Sources; Antislavery movements; U.S. History - Slavery Question And Abolitionism; United States; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; General; United States - General; History / United States / 19th Century; documentary; black; abolitionists; antislavery; British Isles; Canada; Civil War; African colonization; emancipation; Fugitive Slave Law; 19th century; Abolitionists; African American abolitionists
First sentence: Federal government policies of the 1850s-from the Fugitive Slave Law to the Dred Scott decision-shattered black hopes for racial progress in the United States.