Richard S. Newman

Abolitionism

A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh synthesis of the abolitionist movement and ideas in the Anglo-American world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 111mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 135g
• ISBN-13: 9780190213220
• ISBN-10: 0190213221
• Artikelnr.: 49562168

Autorenporträt

Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, and Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. He is the former Edwin Wolf 2nd Director at The Library Company of Philadelphia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Ch. 1 First Freedoms: The Abolitionist Movement in Revolutionary America
Ch. 2 The Rise of Black Abolitionism
Ch. 3 Abolitionist Transformations, 1820s-1850s
Ch. 4 The Abolitionist Movement in the Civil War Era
Conclusion: Abolitionist Endings and Beginnings
References
Further Reading
Index