This five-volume documentary collection—culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials—reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black state conventions, black national convention, many black abolitionists, free black parents, black nationality, black enlistment, colored patriots, colored seamen, local black community, contraband camps, black suffrage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Weekly Anglo-African, South Carolina, John Brown, American Missionary Association, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Hamilton, Ford Douglas, Henry Highland Garnet, New Orleans, North Carolina, Frederick Douglass, African Methodist Episcopal, Harpers Ferry, American Revolution, Thomas Hamilton, Gerrit Smith, Fortress Monroe, Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Dred Scott, John Oliver, Canada West, Fort Wagner, John Mercer Langston New!
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- Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Elizabeth Keckley on 4 pages
- The Negro In The Civil War (A Da Capo paperback) by Benjamin Quarles on 4 pages
- The Struggle for Equality by James M. McPherson on 4 pages
- Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volumes 1 and 2 (Library of America) by Abraham Lincoln on page 156, page 260, and page 320
- Types of Mankind: Or, Ethnological Researches by J. C., M.D. Nott on page 13, and Index
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