Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia

Name: Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia
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Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love

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Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

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Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia 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 by a distinguished group of historians, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalised status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War. Philadelphia was the home to the Society of Friends, which offered the first public attack on slavery in the 1680s; the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the western world's first antislavery group; and to generations of abolitionists who organised some of early America's most important civil rights groups. These abolitionists -- black, white, religious, secular, male, female -- grappled with the meaning of black freedom earlier and more consistently than anyone else in early American culture. Cutting-edge academic views illustrate Philadelphia's antislavery movement, how it survived societal opposition, and how it remained vital to evolving notions of racial justice.

Author Biography:

Richard Newman is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology and author of Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers and The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. James Mueller recently retired as the chief historian at the Independence Hall National Historic Park in Philadelphia.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2011

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Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by James Mueller
Edited by Richard Newman

Pages

272

Series

Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

Dimensions

155x231x30

ISBN-13

9780807139912

Product ID

10842163

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