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Abolitionism and American Politics and Government
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Abolitionism and American Reform
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Abolitionism
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The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves
Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America's political institutions underwent radical changes as they adapted to comprehensive security reforms. While the media exhaustively covered new security protocols in the executive office, little attention was paid to other federal agencies and branches that overhauled their systems to accommodate heightened security requirements. As a congressional fellow living in Washington, D.C., Jocelyn Jones Evans was an eyewitness to the institutional culture of Capitol Hill before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as during the subsequent anthrax scare. In One Nation Under Siege: Congress, Terrorism, and the Fate of American Democracy, Evans u...
The Abolitionists
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Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism
By exploring the role of Oberlin — the college and the community — in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this “hotbed of abolitionism” as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America. As the first college to admit men and women of all races, and with a faculty and community comprised of outspoken abolitionists, Oberlin supported a cadre of activist missionaries devoted to emancipation, even if that was through unconventional methods or via an abandonment of strict ideological consistency. Their philosophy was a color-blind composite of various schools of antislavery t...
The Abolitionists; Means, Ends, and Motivations
"Problems in American Civilization is a distinguished series of topical readers centered upon important and controversial events, movements, theories, and personalities in American history from Colonial times to the present. Each volume brings together, under eminent editorship, numerous views on its theme, inspiring the reader to check, sift, interpret, and draw conclusions from a variety of authoritative sources."--Publisher.
Abolitionists Remember
Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to remind readers of the harsh reality of slavery and to advocate equal rights for African Americans in an era of growing racism, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. --from publisher description
