Introduction: expectations and exceptionalism -- The Haitian Revolution and slaveholding anxiety -- "Fanaticism" and southern fears of black rebellion -- Atlantic abolitionism and American exceptionalism -- Proslavery fear and the rise of the abolitionist power -- Texas annexati…
In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln's place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, south…
In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln's place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, south…
Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes be…
The first full examination of the factors for and against abolition in Tunisia and how it was able to occur in an. environment hostile to such change.
The first full examination of the factors for and against abolition in Tunisia and how it was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change.
The first full examination of the factors for and against abolition in Tunisia and how it was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change.
This book is an examination of the factors for and against abolition in Tunisia and how it was able to occur in an. environment hostile to such change.