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Cover of: Transformation of American Abolitionism
Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
2003, University of North Carolina Press
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Cover of: The transformation of American abolitionism
The transformation of American abolitionism: fighting slavery in the early Republic
2002, University of North Carolina Press, The University of North Carolina Press
in English
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The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
December 4, 2001, The University of North Carolina Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE
Republican Strategists:
The Pennsylvania Abolition Society I6
CHAPTER TWO
Deferential Petitioners:
The Pennsylvania Abolition Society in State and
Federal Government, I790-I830 39
CHAPTER THREE
Creating Free Spaces:
Blacks and Abolitionist Activism in
Pennsylvania Courts, I78os-I83os 60
CHAPTER FOUR
An Appeal to the Heart:
The Black Protest Tradition and the
Coming of Immediatism 86
CHAPTER FIVE
From Pennsylvania to Massachusetts,
from Colonization to Immediatism:
Race and the Overhaul of American Abolitionism I07
CHAPTER SIX
The New Abolitionist Imperative:
Mass Action Strategies 131
CHAPTER SEVEN
A Whole Lot of Shoe Leather:
Agents and the Impact of Grassroots Organizing
in Massachusetts during the I830os I52
EPILOGUE
The Struggle Continued I76
APPENDIX ONE
Letters from Maryland Slaveholders to Judge
William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court, Regarding Fugitive Slaves 185
APPENDIX TWO
Maps
IA-D. Agent Travels in Massachusetts 188
2. Liberator Subscriptions in Massachusetts, I830-I840 190
Notes 191
Selected Bibliography 229
Index 239.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.
Based upon the author's dissertation.

Published in
Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
326.8/0973
Library of Congress
E446 .N58 2002, 2001027913 [E]

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 256 p. :
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3944827M
Internet Archive
transformationof0000newm_v8e5
ISBN 10
0807826715, 0807849987
LCCN
2001027913
OCLC/WorldCat
47023536
Goodreads
3576700
519368

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