Bøger i Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World serien

Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo's The Abolitionist Civil War explores how antislavery reformers contorted their arguments and clashed with each other as they laboured over the course of the conflict to create a more perfect Union.

Offers a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery.

Tells the story of how, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oberlin residents, black and white, understood and acted upon their changing perceptions of race, ultimately resulting in the imposition of a colour line.

In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. Reinhard Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this short-lived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics.

Examines the interactions among abolitionists, Irish nationalists, and American citizens as the issues of slavery and abolition complicated the first transatlantic movement for Irish independence.

Explores the themes and ideas that animated the activist Wendell Phillips and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips's sustained role in Native American rights and the labour movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature.

In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter's handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of an antiques dealer. Its pages told a story of a man born into slavery who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, and edited a newspaper. From Slave to Statesman tells this extraordinary story.

Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition.

Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important abolitionists of the eighteenth century. His antislavery writings served as foundational texts for activists on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite his influence during his lifetime, David Crosby's annotated edition represents the first time Benezet's antislavery works are available in one book.

Offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phenomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.

During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey - called the 'father of the Underground Railroad' by his peers - assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists.

Considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalised status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War.

During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores this phenomenon.

Mining a rich vein of primary and secondary sources, Newton's study elegantly describes how class divisions and disagreements over labour and social policy among free and slave black Barbadians led to political unrest and devastated the hope for an entirely new social structure and a plebeian majority in the British Caribbean.

Highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics - those who undertook the yeoman's work of organising parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of issues related to slavery.

Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history.

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.

"August First Day" became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern US, the British Caribbean, Canada West, and the UK and played a critical role in popular mobilization against American slavery. J.R. Kerr-Ritchie provides the first detailed analysis of this important commemoration.

Examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks.

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves.

An innovative blend of cultural and political history, this is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black population.

While many scholars have examined the slavery disputes in the halls of Congress, Subversives is the first history of practical abolitionism in the streets, homes, and places of business of America's capital.

Offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience.