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Author Newman, Richard S., author.

Title Abolitionism : a very short introduction / Richard S. Newman.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 154 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Very short introductions ; 578
Very short introductions ; 586.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144) and index.
Contents Abolitionist Agitation in a World of Slavery and Pain -- Early Abolitionism: Prophets vs. Profits -- The Rise of Black Abolitionism and Global Anti-Slavery Struggles -- The Time Is Now: The Rise of Immediate Abolition -- The Abolitionist Crossroads -- The Abolitionist Renaissance and the Coming of the Civil War -- American Emancipations: Abolitionism in the Civil War Era -- Abolitionist Endings in the Atlantic World and New Beginnings.
Summary "From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimké - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery - the most powerful economic and political institution of the age - across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers. Sharply written and highly readable, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression."-- Publisher information.
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Subject Abolitionists -- Biography.
Abolitionists -- Biography.
Abolitionists.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
Antislavery movements.
United States.
History.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slavery.
Slavery -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Free African Americans -- History.
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Free African Americans.
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Newman, Richard S. Very short introductions. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190213220 (DLC) 2018008019 (OCoLC)1031046202
ISBN 9780190213237 (Updf)
019021323X
9780190213244 (Epub)
0190213248
9780190914035
0190914033
9780190213220 (paperback)
0190213221