Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781032328058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 178 str.

C. Bradley Thompson

Opis

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and political choices open to antislavery advocates during the antebellum period.

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Part 1. Slavery and Freedom  1. The Patriarchal Institution… (1860) Lydia Maria Child  2. ‘Lecture on Slavery, No. 1’ (1850) Frederick Douglass  3. Selections from Slavery (1836) William E. Channing  Part 2. Immediate Emancipation  4. ‘Declaration of Sentiments…’ (1833) American Anti-Slavery Society  5. Selections from Lectures on Slavery and its Remedy (1834) Amos A. Phelps  Part 3. Moral Suasion and Politics  6. ‘An Address to the Abolitionists of Massachusetts,…’ (1838) Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society  7. ‘A Letter on the Political Obligation of Abolitionists,…’ (1839) James G. Birney  8. ‘Talk About Political Party’ (1842) Lydia Maria Child  Part 4. The Liberty Party  9. ‘Lecture Showing the Necessity for a Liberty Party,…’ (1844) Arnold Buffum  10. ‘Address of the Macedon Convention’ (1847) William Goodell  Part 5. Slavery and the Constitution  11. Slavery and the Constitution (1849) William I. Bowditch  12. ‘The Constitution of the Unites States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?’ (1860) Frederick Douglass  Part 6. Free-Soil and Fugitive Slaves  13. ‘The Two Altars; Or, Two Pictures in One’ (1851) Harriet Beecher Stowe  14. ‘Speech on Our Present Anti-Slavery Duties’ (1850) Charles Sumner  Part 7. Impending Crisis  15. ‘Moral Responsibility of Statesmen’ (1854) Joshua R. Giddings  16. ‘What Is My Duty as an Anti-Slavery Voter?’ and ‘Fremont and Dayton’ (1856) Frederick Douglass  17. ‘House Divided’ Speech (1858) Abraham Lincoln  Part 8. Disunion and Revolution  18. ‘Address to the Slaves of the United States of America’ (1843) Henry Highland Garnet  19. ‘No Compromise With Slavery’ (1854) William Lloyd Garrison  20. ‘No Rights, No Duties: Or, Slaveholders, as Such, Have No Rights; Slaves, as Such, Owe No Duties’ (1860) Henry C. Wright  21. A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (1858) Lysander Spooner

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C. Bradley Thompson