Force and Freedom - Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Informationen zum Autor Kellie Carter Jackson Klappentext Kellie Carter Jackson teaches in the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College. She is coeditor of Reconsidering Roots: Race! Politics! and Memory. Zusammenfassung In Force and Freedom! Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through tactical violence! argues Carter Jackson! abolitionist leaders created the conditions that necessitated the Civil War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Philosophy of Force Chapter 1. Forcing Freedom: The Limits of Moral Suasion Chapter 2. Fight, Flight, and Fugitives: The Fugitive Slave Law and Violence Chapter 3. From Prayers to Pistols: The Struggle for Progress Chapter 4. Black Leadership: The Silenced Partners of Harpers Ferry Chapter 5. A Carbonari Wanted: Violence, Emigration, and the Eve of the Civil War Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Kellie Carter Jackson, Kellie Carter Jackson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780812251159
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5115-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories