Transformation of American Abolitionism

by Richard S. Newman

Book Overview

Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849987
• ISBN13: 9780807849989
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"