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The color of abolition : how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation

"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cau...

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Main Author: Hirshman, Linda, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, [2022]
Subjects and Genres:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Garrison, William Lloyd, > 1805-1879.
Chapman, Maria Weston, > 1806-1885.
Antislavery movements > Massachusetts > Boston > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
African American abolitionists.
Abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Racism > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Meeting on Nantucket
  • Part I: Allies arise
  • Printer Garrison learns his trade
  • Manager Weston Chapman comes of age
  • Garrison will be heard
  • The enslaved write their history
  • Frederick Douglass's history in slavery
  • Frederick Douglass's escape
  • Part II: Abolition takes root
  • David Walker appeals and Garrison hears
  • Starting the black and white antislavery societies
  • A national movement emerges
  • The Liberator will be read
  • Maria Weston Chapman takes the reins
  • Antislavery on the march
  • Moral Garrison splits with the politicos
  • Part III: The Grand Alliance at work
  • Douglass joins Garrison
  • The façade and the cracks in the Alliance
  • Political abolition pulls on Garrisonians
  • The cracks widen
  • Douglass writes and Garrison publishes
  • Frederick Douglass, international superstar and publisher
  • Part IV: Douglass to the political side
  • Slave power rises and abolition power rises
  • The private lives of public activists
  • Compromise makes conflict worse
  • Douglass recruits the Constitution
  • Part V: Douglass and Garrison divide
  • The political divorce
  • The personal divorce
  • Epilogue: Three meetings and a funeral.

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