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Transformation of American Abolitionism
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause.
What began in late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform began to change in the 1820s as black activists, female reformers, and nonelite whites pushed their way into the antislavery movement. Located primarily in Massachusetts, these new reformers demanded immediate emancipation, and they revolutionized abolitionist strategies and tactics -- lecturing extensively, publishing gripping accounts of life in bondage, and organizing on a grassroots level. Their attitudes and actions made the abolition movement the radical cause we view it as today.
What began in late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform began to change in the 1820s as black activists, female reformers, and nonelite whites pushed their way into the antislavery movement. Located primarily in Massachusetts, these new reformers demanded immediate emancipation, and they revolutionized abolitionist strategies and tactics -- lecturing extensively, publishing gripping accounts of life in bondage, and organizing on a grassroots level. Their attitudes and actions made the abolition movement the radical cause we view it as today.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Apr 22nd, 2002
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.26in - 0.65in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9780807849989
- Categories: • United States - 19th Century• United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)• Slavery
About the Author
Newman, Richard S.: - Richard S. Newman is assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 and an educational consultant to Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
Praise for this book
In thoughtful and often original ways, [this book] redirects our attention to the fascinating 'first wave' of the movement and, in turn, resuscitates its historical significance. (Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley)
In thoughtful and often original ways, Ýthis book¨ redirects our attention to the fascinating 'first wave' of the movement and, in turn, resuscitates its historical significance. (Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley)
Because of its persuasive reformulation of accepted historical narratives and because of its revealing analyses of actions as well as ideologies, [this book] is a major historiographical turning point. (James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College)