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Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation
This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms
- African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement
- Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means
- Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown
- Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.
- The rise of black abolitionism. The colonization controversy. Our present homes ; Justice and humanity
- The growth of black abolitionism. An address to the Massachusetts General Colored Associations ; David Walker's appeal
- The rise of immediatism. Black leaders and William Lloyd Garrison
- Moral reform. By moral suasion alone ; Responsibility of colored people in the free states ; A reading room ; Temperance
- Prejudice. The effect of racial prejudice ; Segregated streetcars ; Racial violence
- Two abolitionisms. Black abolitionism defined
- Blacks as advocates. Your obedient servant ; Black abolitionist lecturers ; William Wells Brown's panorama ; Content with freedom ; What the slaves think
- Slave narrative. Slavery in Kentucky ; A thousand miles to freedom ; Slave life- a woman's story ; Narrative of Tom Wilson
- Black women abolitionists. A woman's abolitionism ; The antislavery fair ; A woman's place ; Antislavery poetry ; Bound with them
- Antislavery and the black community. What have they done? ; The Pittsburgh juvenile anti-slavery society
- The Union Missionary Society ; Black abolitionism in the pulpit ; Fair in aid of the impartial citizen
- Problems in the movement. Hints about prejudice ; Professed friends ; The need for a practical abolitionism
- Black independence. A new direction. Asserting independence ; Williams Whipper's letter ; An address to the colored people of the United States
- The African American Press. Why we should have a paper ; Obstacles for the Black Press ; Report of the Committee on a National Press
- In the common defense. Kidnapping in the city of New York ; The rescue of Lucy Faggins ; The underground railroad
- Antislavery politics. Pure antislavery politics ; Our platform of principles ; An extraordinary event ; The issue plainly stated
- Black antislavery tactics. Moral elevation? ; Against separate schools ; Lobbying the legislature ; Let us rouse ourselves ; An unjust tax
- By all just and necessary means. What are moral means good for? ; An appeal for violence
- Black abolitionists and the national crisis. The slave power. Slavery- its effects upon the rights and interests of the North ; In the wake of Dred Scott
- The fugitive slave law. African Americans respond to the fugitive slave law ; Who are the murderer? ; A good revolver
- Black emigration. The Canadian haven ; Standing on free ground ; Come to Canada ; Call for emigration
- Black nationality. Call for a black nationality ; Thoughts on Hayti
- Blacks and John Brown. Glorious work ; If die I must ; John Brown, the martyr ; Breaking into a state ; Call to arms
- Civil war. Debating the war. Formation of colored regiments ; The necessity of action
- The Emancipation Proclamation. Less than complete freedom ; The day of jubilee? ; The present- and its duties
- Blacks and Lincoln. A defender of slavery? ; The best choice available ; John C. Fremont, a better choice ; Assassination of President Lincoln
- The Black military experience. The meaning of the war ; Bravery and its rewards
- The movement goes south. A woman's war ; Rev. J.W. Loguen home again ; The southern field and the proper agents
- Reconstruction. The perils by the way ; Capital versus labor ; A brief review ; The prospect seems gloomy.