American abolitionists

Harrold, Stanley. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0582357381 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 170 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Longman c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-158) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Abolitionists in American History -- Who Were the Abolitionists? -- Changing Interpretations -- New Directions -- 2. Early Abolitionism -- American Slavery -- African, African Americans, and Quakers -- Abolitionism during the Revolutionary Era -- Reaction and Rebellion -- 3. Rise of Immediatism -- Colonization -- Black Abolitionist Violence -- Market Revolution and Evangelicalism -- Benevolent Empire -- William Lloyd Garrison -- American Anti-Slavery Society -- Break-up of the AASS -- 4. Abolitionists and Gender -- Women and Antislavery before the Formation of the AASS -- Separate Spheres and Immediatism -- Abolitionist Masculinity -- Abolitionism and Feminism -- 5. Abolitionists and Race -- Antebellum Debate over Race -- Search for Common Humanity -- Limits of Biracialism -- Black Abolitionists and Race -- Persistence of Biracialism -- 6. More Aggressive Abolitionism -- Struggle against the Slave Power -- Role of Slave Unrest -- Liberty Party -- Aims of the Liberty Party -- Underground Railroad -- Political Abolitionists in the Border South -- Antislavery Missionaries in the Upper South -- Southern Reaction -- 7. Violent Abolitionism -- Nonviolent Abolitionism -- Impact of Slave Rebels -- Defensive Violence -- Violence on the Underground Railroad -- Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Laws -- Impact of Kansas -- Abolitionists Call for Slave Revolt -- 8. Abolitionists and Black Freedom -- Sectional Conflict during the 1850s -- John Brown's Raid -- Civil War Years -- Flawed Victory -- 9. Abolitionists and the Reform Tradition.