This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Am…
"Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a better understanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility."--Source inconnue.
Abolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent im…
Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a better understanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility.
Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a better understanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility.
Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a betterunderstanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility.
Content: The abolitionist imagination / Andrew Delbanco -- Fighting the devil with his own fire / John Stauffer -- Did the abolitionists cause the Civil War? / Manisha Sinha -- The invisibility of black abolitionists / Darryl Pinckney -- Abolition as master concept / Wilfred M. …
Kerry Walters examines representative revolts and offers narratives, primary materials, chronologies and biographies of participants for high school and undergraduate students. Walters offers information on a compelling topic that will be of interest to students of American hist…
Chronology of events -- Prologue: Panic in Westmoreland County -- State of siege -- The Stono Revolt -- The 1741 New York conspiracy -- The Prosser conspiracy -- The German Coast Revolt -- Negro Fort resistance -- The Vesey conspiracy -- Nat Turner's Revolt -- The Cheneyville co…
"Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in slaveholders and politicians, and…
"Hundreds of slave revolts and conspiracies occurred during the two centuries that North America engaged in slavery. None were successful, but certain campaigns were significant enough to inspire other revolts, fuel a chronic fear of uprising in slaveholders and politicians, and…
