Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the 'back to Africa' movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.
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A fitting finale to a remarkable scholarly undertaking.
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A judicious and extremely useful selection of documents from one of the most important publishing projects of our time.
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Provides the best entry point to understand the full complexity of Afro-American life in the North.
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C. Peter Ripley, professor of history and black studies at The Florida State University, is editor of the Black Abolitionist Papers volumes and author of Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana.
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The African American struggle to claim the United States as a homeland gave rise to the black abolitionist movement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black abolitionism, black national convention, most black abolitionists, patter rollers, black nationality, white reformers, antislavery lecturer, slave violence, white abolitionists, antislavery politics, antislavery movement, free colored people, professed friends, colored brethren Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, African Americans, Weekly Anglo-African, Colored American, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, South Carolina, Harpers Ferry, William Wells Brown, Canada West, Civil War, Fugitive Slave Bill, Gerrit Smith, Robert Purvis, Trustees of the Boston Public Library, William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society, Anti-Slavery Collection, Henry Highland Garnet, President Lincoln, School Committee, Courtesy of Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence New!
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The African American struggle to claim the United States as a homeland gave rise to the black abolitionist movement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black abolitionism, black national convention, most black abolitionists, patter rollers, black nationality, white reformers, antislavery lecturer, slave violence, white abolitionists, antislavery politics, antislavery movement, free colored people, professed friends, colored brethren Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, African Americans, Weekly Anglo-African, Colored American, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, South Carolina, Harpers Ferry, William Wells Brown, Canada West, Civil War, Fugitive Slave Bill, Gerrit Smith, Robert Purvis, Trustees of the Boston Public Library, William Lloyd Garrison, American Colonization Society, Anti-Slavery Collection, Henry Highland Garnet, President Lincoln, School Committee, Courtesy of Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence New!
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- They Who Would Be Free: Blacks Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 by Jane H. Pease on 5 pages
- Black Abolitionists (Da Capo Paperback) by Benjamin Quarles on 5 pages
- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin R. Delany on 4 pages
- Thoughts on African Colonization (American Negro : His History & Lit. Ser.) by W. Garrison on 4 pages
- The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- American Radicalism (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History) by Daniel Pope on page 114, page 117, and page 120
- Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery by Patricia Smith in Back Matter
- Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating a New Nation (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by David S. Heidler in Back Matter
- The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) by Jacqueline Bacon in Back Matter
- A Lydia Maria Child Reader (New Americanists) by Carolyn L. Karcher in Back Matter
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