The meaning of slavery in the North
By: edited by David Roediger and Martin H. Blatt.
Contributors: Roediger, David R.; Blatt, Martin Henry, 1951-; Lowell Conference on Industrial History (12th : 1993)
Series: Garland reference library of social science ;; v. 1184.; Labor in America ;; v. 4; Garland reference library of social science ;; v. 1184.; Garland reference library of social science.; v. 4.
Publisher: Garland Pub.; Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Northeastern States -- Congresses.; Industrialization -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Antislavery movements -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Northeastern States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection of essays consists of substantially revised papers delivered at the twelfth Lowell Conference on Industrial History, June 3-5, 1993.
Table of contents: title: Those valuable people, the Africans / Ronald Bailey; title: For the sake of commerce / Myron O. Stachiw; title: Slavery in the North / Thomas H. O'Connor; title: Southern Whiggery and economic development / Larry K. Menna; title: The northern churches and the moral problem of slavery / John R. McKivigan; title: Feminist abolitionists in Boston and Philadelphia / Carolyn Williams; title: Needles, pens, and petitions / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven; title: Blackface minstrelsy, vernacular comics, and the politics of slavery in the North / Alexander Saxton.