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Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and political choices open to antislavery advocates during the antebellum period.
List of contents
Part 1. Slavery and Freedom 1. The Patriarchal Institution… (1860) Lydia Maria Child 2. ‘Lecture on Slavery, No. 1’ (1850) Frederick Douglass 3. Selections from Slavery (1836) William E. Channing Part 2. Immediate Emancipation 4. ‘Declaration of Sentiments…’ (1833) American Anti-Slavery Society 5. Selections from Lectures on Slavery and its Remedy (1834) Amos A. Phelps Part 3. Moral Suasion and Politics 6. ‘An Address to the Abolitionists of Massachusetts,…’ (1838) Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society 7. ‘A Letter on the Political Obligation of Abolitionists,…’ (1839) James G. Birney 8. ‘Talk About Political Party’ (1842) Lydia Maria Child Part 4. The Liberty Party 9. ‘Lecture Showing the Necessity for a Liberty Party,…’ (1844) Arnold Buffum 10. ‘Address of the Macedon Convention’ (1847) William Goodell Part 5. Slavery and the Constitution 11. Slavery and the Constitution (1849) William I. Bowditch 12. ‘The Constitution of the Unites States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?’ (1860) Frederick Douglass Part 6. Free-Soil and Fugitive Slaves 13. ‘The Two Altars; Or, Two Pictures in One’ (1851) Harriet Beecher Stowe 14. ‘Speech on Our Present Anti-Slavery Duties’ (1850) Charles Sumner Part 7. Impending Crisis 15. ‘Moral Responsibility of Statesmen’ (1854) Joshua R. Giddings 16. ‘What Is My Duty as an Anti-Slavery Voter?’ and ‘Fremont and Dayton’ (1856) Frederick Douglass 17. ‘House Divided’ Speech (1858) Abraham Lincoln Part 8. Disunion and Revolution 18. ‘Address to the Slaves of the United States of America’ (1843) Henry Highland Garnet 19. ‘No Compromise With Slavery’ (1854) William Lloyd Garrison 20. ‘No Rights, No Duties: Or, Slaveholders, as Such, Have No Rights; Slaves, as Such, Owe No Duties’ (1860) Henry C. Wright 21. A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (1858) Lysander Spooner
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Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and political choices open to antislavery advocates during the antebellum period.
