Against Slavery: An Abolitionist ReaderMason Lowance Penguin, 1. feb. 2000 - 384 sider "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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Side xiv
... nation which celebrates annually the fundamental Enlightenment principle of natural rights by reaffirming that " all men are created equal " while tolerating the right of slaveholders to own human beings . Americans began debating the ...
... nation which celebrates annually the fundamental Enlightenment principle of natural rights by reaffirming that " all men are created equal " while tolerating the right of slaveholders to own human beings . Americans began debating the ...
Side xvii
... nation through na- tional , regional , and local state organizations . William Lloyd Garrison ( 1805-1879 ) is generally considered to be the dean of the abolitionist movement in the United States . In- fluenced early in his life by the ...
... nation through na- tional , regional , and local state organizations . William Lloyd Garrison ( 1805-1879 ) is generally considered to be the dean of the abolitionist movement in the United States . In- fluenced early in his life by the ...
Side xxxi
... nation that had abandoned its charter principles and had al- lowed slavery to coexist with annual proclamations and celebra- tions of individual rights . Douglass was invited to give the Fourth of July oration for 1852 by the Rochester ...
... nation that had abandoned its charter principles and had al- lowed slavery to coexist with annual proclamations and celebra- tions of individual rights . Douglass was invited to give the Fourth of July oration for 1852 by the Rochester ...
Side xxxiii
... nation for the sin of slavery . To survey the abolitionist movement as a collection of eminent lives and the writings of those figures may seem peculiar to some readers . Historians , for example , might stress the internecine wars of ...
... nation for the sin of slavery . To survey the abolitionist movement as a collection of eminent lives and the writings of those figures may seem peculiar to some readers . Historians , for example , might stress the internecine wars of ...
Side xxxv
... nation's history , one where some 620,000 lives were lost on both sides , more than have been lost in all the other American wars combined . Historians have argued endlessly whether " slavery " or " the right to secede from the Union by ...
... nation's history , one where some 620,000 lives were lost on both sides , more than have been lost in all the other American wars combined . Historians have argued endlessly whether " slavery " or " the right to secede from the Union by ...
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VI | 11 |
VIII | 14 |
IX | 15 |
X | 17 |
XI | 18 |
XIII | 21 |
XIV | 24 |
LI | 193 |
LII | 199 |
LIII | 203 |
LIV | 216 |
LV | 220 |
LVII | 224 |
LX | 225 |
LXI | 226 |
XV | 25 |
XVI | 27 |
XVII | 34 |
XVIII | 35 |
XIX | 43 |
XX | 45 |
XXI | 49 |
XXII | 55 |
XXIII | 56 |
XXIV | 59 |
XXV | 66 |
XXVI | 77 |
XXVII | 81 |
XXVIII | 83 |
XXIX | 88 |
XXX | 89 |
XXXI | 99 |
XXXII | 101 |
XXXIII | 104 |
XXXIV | 108 |
XXXV | 113 |
XXXVI | 115 |
XXXVII | 118 |
XXXVIII | 121 |
XXXIX | 127 |
XL | 129 |
XLI | 140 |
XLII | 145 |
XLVI | 150 |
XLVII | 156 |
XLVIII | 172 |
XLIX | 173 |
L | 188 |
LXII | 231 |
LXIII | 232 |
LXIV | 237 |
LXV | 238 |
LXVI | 242 |
LXVII | 248 |
LXVIII | 249 |
LXIX | 252 |
LXX | 253 |
LXXI | 254 |
LXXII | 255 |
LXXIII | 256 |
LXXIV | 257 |
LXXV | 258 |
LXXVI | 260 |
LXXVII | 262 |
LXXIX | 269 |
LXXX | 271 |
LXXXI | 281 |
LXXXII | 287 |
LXXXIII | 290 |
LXXXIV | 292 |
LXXXV | 297 |
LXXXVI | 299 |
LXXXVII | 309 |
LXXXVIII | 310 |
LXXXIX | 317 |
XC | 318 |
XCI | 320 |
XCII | 321 |
XCIII | 328 |
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Side xiii - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.