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Standard-bearers of equality : America's first abolition movement /

Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New-York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, her unearths t...

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Main Author: Polgar, Paul J., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects and Genres:
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery > History.
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated > History.
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated.
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
1700-1899
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Middle Atlantic States > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Political activity.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États du Moyen-Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États du Moyen-Atlantique (États-Unis) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains affranchis > Activité politique.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Antislavery movements.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Middle Atlantic States.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction:
  • Reimagining American abolitionism
  • 1.
  • The making of a movement : progress, problems, and the ambiguous origins of the abolitionist project
  • 2.
  • The "just right of freedom" : enforcing and expanding gradual emancipation
  • 3.
  • Republicans of color : societal environmentalism and the quest for black citizenship
  • 4.
  • "A well grounded hope" : sweeping away the cobwebs of prejudice
  • 5.
  • "Unconquerable prejudice" and "alien enemies" : the roots and rise of the American Colonization Society
  • 6.
  • A prudent alternative or a dangerous diversion? First movement abolitionists respond to colonization
  • Epilogue:
  • A movement forgotten.

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