Black abolitionists
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Black abolitionists
（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1991]
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Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1969
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-292) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America's leading black historians, sets the record straight. As Benjamin Quarles shows, blacks were anything but passive in the abolitionist movement. Many of the pioneers of abolition were black dozens of black preachers and writers actively promoted the cause black organizations were founded to support their brothers black ambassadors for freedom crossed the Atlantic blacks were instrumental in the operation of the Underground Railroad. Quarles puts it eloquently: "To the extent that America had a revolutionary tradition [the black American] was its protagonist no less than its symbol."
Table of Contents
* Abolitions New Breed * Black Sowers of the Word * New Tissue for a Broken Body * Pulpit and Press * The Users of Adversity * Duet with John Bull * The Black Underground * The Politics of Freedom * Protests New Prophets * Shock Therapy and Crisis * Note on Bibliographical Literature
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