To plead our own cause : African Americans in Massachusetts and the making of the antislavery movement / Christopher Cameron.
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831--a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society. W...
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2014.
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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.