Pennsylvania Hall - A Legal Lynching the Shadow of the Liberty Bell

Informationen zum Autor Beverly C. Tomek is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria. Klappentext Offering a gripping narrative of one of the most notorious anti-abolition and anti-black riots to take place in the antebellum U.S., Pennsylvania Hall: A 'Legal Lynching' in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell provides a thorough explanation of the complexities of American antislavery and describes a society that was struggling to recreate itself in the wake of emancipation. 1. PENNSYLVANIA'S ANTISLAVERY BACKGROUND ; 2. FREE PRODUCE AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN ABOLITION ; 3. A BIRACIAL MOVEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION ; 4. RADICALISM IN THE GRADUALIST CITY ; 5. A "TEMPLE OF LIBERTY" OR A "TEMPLE OF AMALGAMATION"? ; 6. AN AMALGAMATION WEDDING ; 7. THIS "TABERNACLE OF MISCHIEF AND FANATICISM" ; 8. FREE SPEECH "CONSUMED IN A BLUE BLAZE" ; 9. AFTERSHOCKS ; 10. A "LEGAL LYNCHING" AND THE MARTYRDOM OF PENNSYLVANIA HALL ; AFTERWARD

Product details

• Authors: Beverly C Tomek, Beverly C. Tomek
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199837601
• ISBN: 978-0-19-983760-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Historical Encounters; Critical Historical Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity