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Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War

Title: Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War [electronic resource] / James Brewer Stewart.
Author: Stewart, James Brewer.
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.

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1 online resource (xiii, 236 p.)

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Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War (Online)

Alternative Title

Abolitionist politics and the coming of the Civil War (Online)

Subject

Antislavery movements > United States > History > 18th century
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
Abolitionists > United States > Biography
Political activists > United States > Biography
Abolitionists > Political activity > History. > United States
Radicalism > United States > History
Equality > United States > History
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
United States > History > Causes. > Civil War, 1861-1865

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

From moral suasion to political confrontation : American abolitionists and the problem of resistance, 1831-1861 -- Modernizing "difference" : the political meanings of color in the free states, 1776-1840 -- The Roberts case, the Easton family, and the dynamics of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts, 1776-1870 (co-authored with George R. Price) -- William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and the symmetry of autobiography : charisma and the character of abolitionist leadership -- Joshua Giddings, antislavery violence, and the politics of congressional honor -- The orator and the insurrectionist -- The New Haven Negro College and the dynamics of race in New England, 1776-1870 -- Reconsidering the abolitionists in an age of fundamentalist politics.

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