Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Anti-slavery Leaders of North Carolina
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Anti-slavery Leaders of North Carolina
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333392345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Excerpt from Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina When, about three years ago, I began to make a study of slavery in North Carolina I found that there were some men like Mr. Helper, Prof. Hedrick, and Mr. Goodloe, whose participation in the anti-slavery cause demanded a more extended notice than it was possible to give in a gen eral treatment of the subject. Consequently, I have pre pared the present sketches. I offer them to the public because it does not seem good that the personalities of North Carolina's contributors to the anti-slavery cause should be forgotten. For assistance in this work my thanks are due to Mr. Helper, Mr. Goodloe, Mr. Charles J. Hedrick, of George town, D. C., and Dr. Dred Peacock, of Greensboro, N. C. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
ANTI-SLAVERY LEADERS OF NORTH
Author: John Spencer 1867-1928 BassettPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360372280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
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The Fire of Freedom
Author: David S. CecelskiPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Examines the life of a former slave who became a radical abolitionist and Union spy, recruiting black soldiers for the North, fighting racism within the Union Army and much more.
The Secession Movement in North Carolina
Author: Joseph Carlyle SittersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854
Author: Jonathan Halperin EarlePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807855553
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an exp
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Author: Julie Roy JeffreyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to the Civil War. She offers a complex and compelling portrait of antebellum women's activism, tracing its changing contours over time. For more than three decades, women raised money, carried petitions, created propaganda, sponsored lecture series, circulated newspapers, supported third-party movements, became public lecturers, and assisted fugitive slaves. Indeed, Jeffrey says, theirs was the day-to-day work that helped to keep abolitionism alive. Drawing from letters, diaries, and institutional records, she uses the words of ordinary women to illuminate the meaning of abolitionism in their lives, the rewards and challenges that their commitment provided, and the anguished personal and public steps that abolitionism sometimes demanded they take. Whatever their position on women's rights, argues Jeffrey, their abolitionist activism was a radical step--one that challenged the political and social status quo as well as conventional gender norms.
The Fire of Freedom
Author: David S. CecelskiPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice. He risked his life behind enemy lines, recruited black soldiers for the North, and fought racism in the Union army's ranks. He also stood at the forefront of an African American political movement that flourished in the Union-occupied parts of North Carolina, even leading a historic delegation of black southerners to the White House to meet with President Lincoln and to demand the full rights of citizenship. He later became one of the first black men elected to the North Carolina legislature. Long hidden from history, Galloway's story reveals a war unfamiliar to most of us. As David Cecelski writes, "Galloway's Civil War was a slave insurgency, a war of liberation that was the culmination of generations of perseverance and faith." This riveting portrait illuminates Galloway's life and deepens our insight into the Civil War and Reconstruction as experienced by African Americans in the South.
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Author: Patrick RaelPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.