" The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented provocative speeches that, for the first time, addressed the slaves directly rather than aiming rebukes at white owners. By forthrightly embracing the slaves as allies and exhorting them to take action, these three addresses pointed toward a more inclusive and aggressive antislavery effort.These addresses were particularly frightening to white slaveholders who were significantly in the minority of the population in some parts of low country Georgia and South Carolina. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism includes the full text of each address, as well as related documents, and presents a detailed study of their historical context, the reactions they provoked, and their lasting impact on U.S. history. Stanley Harrold, professor of history at South Carolina State University, is the author of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 and The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. He lives in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
| ||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Harrold examines abolitionist speeches aimed directly at slaves during the pivotal decade of the 1840s.... Deserves much praise and a wide readership." -- American Historical Review
"When policymaking guides truly are creative and astute, they can be very important works that have a substantial impact. The Sheriff is such a book, and it is to be hoped that it receives much attention in the U.S. policymaking community." -- Comparative Strategy
"Harrold's insightful analysis and provocative arguments will force historians to reexamine the essential nature of the struggle to end slavery between 1840 and the Civil War." -- Journal of American History Offers scholars yet another vantage point from which
"Explores the tactical shift in the 1840s that ensured abolitionists a controversial place on the national stage.... Harrold's analysis is thorough and engaging throughout." -- Southern Historian
About the Author
Stanley Harrold, professor of history at South Carolina State University, is the author of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865. He lives in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
There is no mistaking the urgency with which Gerrit Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, and Herny Highland Garnet frame their Addresses to the Slaves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radical political abolitionists, black national convention, letter book copy, abolitionist factions, antislavery violence, enslaved black men, hereditary bondmen, purchasing freedom, slave audience, slave violence, northern abolitionism, antislavery action, helping slaves escape, slave unrest, northern public opinion, enslaved men, antislavery struggle, northern abolitionists, black abolitionists, white abolitionists, antislavery convention, other abolitionists, antislavery movement, many abolitionists, antislavery newspapers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Smith's Address, Garnet's Address, African Americans, New England, Garrison's Address, Gerrit Smith, United States, Frederick Douglass, District of Columbia, Faneuil Hall, Free Soil Party, Ohio Liberty, American Revolution, Nat Turner, Civil War, Walker's Appeal, Abel Brown, Gamaliel Bailey, Henry Highland Garnet, Lewis Tappan, Lydia Maria Child, Madison Washington, John Brown, National Convention of Colored Citizens New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
There is no mistaking the urgency with which Gerrit Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, and Herny Highland Garnet frame their Addresses to the Slaves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radical political abolitionists, black national convention, letter book copy, abolitionist factions, antislavery violence, enslaved black men, hereditary bondmen, purchasing freedom, slave audience, slave violence, northern abolitionism, antislavery action, helping slaves escape, slave unrest, northern public opinion, enslaved men, antislavery struggle, northern abolitionists, black abolitionists, white abolitionists, antislavery convention, other abolitionists, antislavery movement, many abolitionists, antislavery newspapers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Smith's Address, Garnet's Address, African Americans, New England, Garrison's Address, Gerrit Smith, United States, Frederick Douglass, District of Columbia, Faneuil Hall, Free Soil Party, Ohio Liberty, American Revolution, Nat Turner, Civil War, Walker's Appeal, Abel Brown, Gamaliel Bailey, Henry Highland Garnet, Lewis Tappan, Lydia Maria Child, Madison Washington, John Brown, National Convention of Colored Citizens New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
