To Preach Deliverance to the Captives

Ryan C McIlhenny

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign against... Lees meer

Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips's path... Lees meer

The River Flows On

Walter C Rucker

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• The River Flows On is an impressively broad study of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and Sout... Lees meer

Subversives

Stanley Harrold

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the str... Lees meer

Bonds of Salvation

Ben Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years... Lees meer

The Abolitionist Civil War

Frank J Cirillo

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Winner of the 2024 Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History Finalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize The astonishing transformation of the ab... Lees meer

The Liberty Party, 1840-1848

Reinhard O Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. A mere eight years later, bolstered by the... Lees meer

The Most Absolute Abolition

Jesse Olsavsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Jesse Olsavsky's The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionize... Lees meer

Rites of August First

Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August ... Lees meer

Revolutionary Emancipation

Claudius K Fergus

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into on... Lees meer

If We Must Die

Eric Robert Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the pre... Lees meer

Degrees of Equality

John Frederick Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Winner of the New Scholar's Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Winner of the Linda Eisenmann Prize The abolitionist movemen... Lees meer

Emancipating New York

David N Gellman

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New Yor... Lees meer

Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

Gelien Matthews

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in En... Lees meer

The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery

W Caleb McDaniel

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book Prize In The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDan... Lees meer

Captives and Voyagers

Alexander X Byrd

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for ... Lees meer

Elusive Utopia

Gary Kornblith, Carol Lasser

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin C... Lees meer

The Problem of Emancipation

Edward Bartlett Rugemer

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• "A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Re... Lees meer

Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863

Rita Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly ... Lees meer

Elusive Utopia

Gary Kornblith, Carol Lasser

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin C... Lees meer

The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religiou... Lees meer

The Children of Africa in the Colonies

Melanie J Newton

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end ... Lees meer

Abolitionizing Missouri

Kristen Layne Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Ab... Lees meer

No Taint of Compromise

Frederick J Blue

• Paperback | Engels | Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who u... Lees meer