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The Antislavery Vanguard : New Essays on the Abolitionists / Martin B. Duberman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1901Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1965Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691622712
  • 9781400875160
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7114
LOC classification:
  • E449
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Background -- 1. Slavery and Sin: The Cultural Background -- 2. Who Was an Abolitionist? -- 3. Who Defends the Abolitionist? -- Part II : Individuals -- 4. Orange Scott: The Methodist Evangelist as Revolutionary -- 5. The Persistence of Wendell Phillips -- 6. Abolition's Different Drummer: Frederick Douglass -- Part III: The Abolitionists and the Negro -- 7. The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist -- 8. A Brief for Equality: The Abolitionist Reply to the Racist Myth, 1860-1865 -- 9. "Iconoclasm Has Had Its Day": Abolitionists and Freedmen in South Carolina -- Part IV: Side Perspectives -- 10. The Abolitionist Critique of the United States Constitution -- 11. Antislavery and Utopia -- 12. The Psychology of Commitment: The Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society -- Part V: Comparisons: A. Foreign B. Domestic -- A. Foreign -- 13. "A Sacred Animosity": Abolitionism in Canada -- 14. The British and American Abolitionists Compared -- B. Domestic -- 15. Ambiguities in the Antislavery Crusade of the Republican Party -- 16. The Northern Response to Slavery -- PART VI: CONCLUDING -- 17. Abolitionists, Freedom-Riders, and the Tactics of Agitation -- Index
Summary: The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "meddlesome fanatics" is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this re-examination of thee abolitionists, the harsh, one-sided judgment that they were men blind to their own motives, to the needs of the country, and even to the welfare of the slaves, and that their self-righteous fury did much to bring on a "needless war" is not completely reversed, but a more sympathetic evaluation of their role does emerge. The motives tactics and effects of the abolitionist movement are reviewed, and its place in the broader context of the antislavery movement is reconsidered.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Background -- 1. Slavery and Sin: The Cultural Background -- 2. Who Was an Abolitionist? -- 3. Who Defends the Abolitionist? -- Part II : Individuals -- 4. Orange Scott: The Methodist Evangelist as Revolutionary -- 5. The Persistence of Wendell Phillips -- 6. Abolition's Different Drummer: Frederick Douglass -- Part III: The Abolitionists and the Negro -- 7. The Emancipation of the Negro Abolitionist -- 8. A Brief for Equality: The Abolitionist Reply to the Racist Myth, 1860-1865 -- 9. "Iconoclasm Has Had Its Day": Abolitionists and Freedmen in South Carolina -- Part IV: Side Perspectives -- 10. The Abolitionist Critique of the United States Constitution -- 11. Antislavery and Utopia -- 12. The Psychology of Commitment: The Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society -- Part V: Comparisons: A. Foreign B. Domestic -- A. Foreign -- 13. "A Sacred Animosity": Abolitionism in Canada -- 14. The British and American Abolitionists Compared -- B. Domestic -- 15. Ambiguities in the Antislavery Crusade of the Republican Party -- 16. The Northern Response to Slavery -- PART VI: CONCLUDING -- 17. Abolitionists, Freedom-Riders, and the Tactics of Agitation -- Index

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The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "meddlesome fanatics" is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians. In this re-examination of thee abolitionists, the harsh, one-sided judgment that they were men blind to their own motives, to the needs of the country, and even to the welfare of the slaves, and that their self-righteous fury did much to bring on a "needless war" is not completely reversed, but a more sympathetic evaluation of their role does emerge. The motives tactics and effects of the abolitionist movement are reviewed, and its place in the broader context of the antislavery movement is reconsidered.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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