To plead our own cause : African Americans in Massachusetts and the making of the antislavery movement / Christopher Cameron.
"Fleshing out the important links between Reformed theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron argues that African Americans in Massachusetts initiated organized abolitionism in America and that their antislavery ideology had its or...
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | American abolitionism and antislavery.
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Table of Contents:
- Puritans and slavery
- Black abolitionist writers in the age of revolution
- Black petitioning and organized abolitionism in revolutionary Massachusetts
- Abolition of slavery and the slave trade
- Massachusetts Blacks and the growth of the northern antislavery movement
- Black emigration and abolition in the early republic
- Abolitionism and the politics of slavery in early antebellum Massachusetts.