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Informationen zum Autor Edited with an Introduction by Mason Lowance Klappentext "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung This collection brings together more than 40 speeches, lectures, and essays to trace the evolution of the most important and revolutionary reform in American history - the abolitionist movement. Included are pieces by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Inhaltsverzeichnis AGAINST SLAVERY: An Abolitionst Reader CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION xiii SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING xxxvii I. The Historical Background for Antebellum Abolitionism, 1700-1830 Introduction 3 Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph (1700) 11 John Saffin, A Brief Candid Answer to The Selling of Joseph (1701) 15 Cotton Mather, The Negro Christianized (1706) 18 John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754 and 1762) 21 Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773) 25 Thomas Jefferson, from the Declaration of Independence (1776) 28 Joseph Story, "Charge to the Grand Jury of Maine, May 8, 1820" 29 Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) 38 II. The Biblical Antislavery Arguments Introduction 49 Theodore Dwight Weld, The Bible Against Slavery (1837) 53 Alexander Crummell, "An Address to the British Antislavery Society" (1851) 59 James Freeman Clarke, Slavery in the United States (1843) 63 Alexander McLeod, Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802 and 1846) 70 Robert Dale Owen, The Wrong of Slavery (1864) 81 III. The Abolitionist Crusade, 1830-1865 Introduction 87 William Lloyd Garrison, "An Address to the American Colonization Society" (1829) 92 Garrison, "Commencement of The Liberator," editorial (1831) 103 Garrison, "Truisms" (1831) 105 Garrison, "Henry Clay's Colonization Address" (1830) 108 Garrison, "The Great [Constitutional] Crisis" (1832) 112 Garrison, "American Colorphobia" (1847) 117 Garrison, "Declaration of the National Antislavery Convention" (1833) 119 Garrison, "Speech at the Fourth National Women's Rights Convention" (1853) 122 Garrison, "No Compromise with Slavery" (1854) 125 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829) 131 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Massachusetts to Virginia" (1843) 144 Whittier, Justice and Expediency (1833) 149 Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) 154 William Ellery Channing, Slavery (1835) 176 Gerrit Smith, "Letter to the Rev. Smylie" (1837) 192 Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836) 197 Sarah Moore Grimké, "An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States" (1836) 203 Catherine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837) 207 Angelina Grimké, Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1838) 220 Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is (1839) 224...
