Abolition movement

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Contrary to popular misconception, race and skin color played almost no role in the history of slavery in the world prior to the 17th century. But by the 1800s, the form of slavery practiced in the American South was based almost exclusively on race and skin color.

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Full title :Abolition movement / T. Adams Upchurch.

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Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Greenwood
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 195 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780313386077, 0313386072, 1283056577, 9781283056571, 9786613056573, 661305657X
oclc:ocn715236757
LC Classification:E441
Dewey Decimal:326/.80973

Chronology of American slavery and abolition -- From common practice to peculiar institution : slavery and abolitionism to 1816 -- The emergence of a national movement : 1816 to 1840 -- Growing pains of the abolition movement : 1840 to 1848 -- Slavery, abolition, and the West : 1848 to 1856 -- Toward the Civil War : 1856 to 1865 -- Biographical profiles of key abolitionists.

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Abolitionists Abolitionists -- Biography. -- United S… Abolitionnistes -- Biographies. -- État… Antislavery movements Antislavery movements -- History. -- Un… Biographies Biography Esclavage -- Histoire. -- États-Unis History Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- Histoir… Slavery Slavery -- History. -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery United States