Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction

by Richard S Newman and Richard S. Newman

Book Overview

From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190213221
• ISBN13: 9780190213220
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"