The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering StormCosimo, Inc., 01/01/2005 - 260 páginas There is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurrection which occurred during the following August. It was, however, but natural that the South should associate the two events. A few utterances of the paper were fitted, if not intended, to incite insurrection. One passage reads: ... "Rather than see men wearing their chains in a cowardly and servile spirit, I would, as an advocate of peace, much rather see them breaking the heads of the tyrant with their chains."-from "The Turning Point"It's the rare history book that offers first-person knowledge combined with an understanding of the grander context in which the events depicted too place, but we have such a unique confluence in this 1919 book. Jesse May, born into a family of Midwest abolitionists and a Quaker noncombatant during the Civil War, grew up to become a respected historian and political scientist, and he brings his unusual perspective on slavery and abolition in America to this concise, clear-headed survey. From an expurgated tidbit condemning slavery in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to the particular power of women in the antislavery movement, Macy's work is a brief but devastating argument about hypocrisy, democracy, and freedom in America in the mid-19th century.American political scientist JESSE MACY (1842-1919) was a professor at Grinnell College. He wrote extensively on political, social, and civic matters. |
Índice
1 | |
14 | |
EARLY CRUSADERS | 27 |
THE TURNINGPOINT | 54 |
THE VINDICATION OF LIBERTY | 67 |
THE SLAVERY ISSUE IN POLITICS | 85 |
THE PASSING OF THE WHIG PARTY | 98 |
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | 112 |
BLEEDING KANSAS | 144 |
CHARLES SUMNER 64 | 165 |
KANSAS AND BUCHANAN 66 | 182 |
THE SUPREME COURT IN POLITICS 66 | 191 |
JOHN BROWN 66 | 203 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 | 233 |
237 | |
BOOKS AS ANTISLAVERY WEAPONS 333 | 131 |
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The Anti-slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, Volume 28 Jesse Macy Visualização integral - 1919 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abolish slavery abolition abolitionists adopted American Anti-Slavery Society anti Anti-Slavery Society appeared attack became began Birney Buchanan candidate chief church citizens Coffin Congress constitution Court crusade debate declared defend Democrats doctrine Douglas early effect election emancipation England escape extended extension of slavery favor force Free-soil free-state friends Fugitive Slave Act Fugitive Slave Law furnished Garrison Government Governor held institution of slavery issue John Brown Kansas Kentucky later Lawrence Levi Coffin liberation Liberty party litionists Lundy ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mob violence negroes North Northern Ohio organized Osawatomie petition platform political President principles prisoners pro-slavery Quaker Reeder refused Republicans resolution Senator settlers slave-owners slave-trade slaveholders slavery slavery question South Carolina Southern leaders spirit stitution subject of slavery Sumner territorial Legislature Texas tion Uncle Tom's Cabin Underground Railroad United utterances Virginia vote Wakarusa War western Whigs women York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 8 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 7 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 13 - ... that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice...
Referências a este livro
The Slave Narrative: Its Place in American History Marion Wilson Starling Visualização de excertos - 1981 |