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A self-evident lie : Southern slavery and the threat to American freedom by Tewell, Jeremy J., 1979-

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Denmark Vesey's revolt : the slave plot that lit a fuse to Fort Sumter by Lofton, John

“…American abolitionism and antislavery…”
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Her voice will be on the side of right gender and power in women's antebellum antislavery fiction by Kent, Holly M., 1981-

“…American abolitionism and antislavery…”
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Colonial culture in France since the revolution by Blanchard, Pascal, Lemaire, Sandrine, Bancel, Nicolas

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Colonial culture in France since the revolution by Blanchard, Pascal, Lemaire, Sandrine, Bancel, Nicolas

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Colonial culture in France since the revolution by Blanchard, Pascal, Lemaire, Sandrine, Bancel, Nicolas

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Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America

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Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 by Haines, Herbert H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death penalty abolitionism in America -- The fall and rise of capital punishment: 1965-1976 -- The return of the executioner: 1976-1982 -- The reemergence of political abolitionism -- Framing disputes in the movement against capital punishment -- Abolitionism at the crossroads -- Reframing capital punishment: pragmatic abolitionism -- Afterword: Spring, 1999.…”
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David Ruggles : a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

Table of Contents: “…A revolutionary childhood -- An apprentice abolitionist in post-emancipation New York City -- Making practical abolitionism -- Melding black abolitionism and the underground railroad -- Abolitionist and physician.…”
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Race and Revolution. by Nash, Gary B.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Revolutionary Generation Embraces Abolitionism; CHAPTER TWO The Failure of Abolitionism; CHAPTER THREE Black Americans in a White Republic; DOCUMENTS; Documents for Chapter One; Documents for Chapter Two; Documents for Chapter Three; Reading Further; Index.…”
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Slavery and the meetinghouse : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865 by Jordan, Ryan P., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Quakers, slavery, and the "peaceable kingdom" -- Quaker gradualists and the challenge of abolitionism -- Slavery, religious liberty, and the "political" abolitionism of the Indiana Anti-Slavery Friends -- Friends and the "children of Africa" : Quaker abolitionists confront the Negro pew -- "Progressive" Friends and the government of God -- Quaker pacifism and civil disobedience in the antebellum period -- Conclusion: "Fighting Quakers," abolitionists, and the Civil War.…”
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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World by Davis, David Brion

Table of Contents: “…The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.…”
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Challenging the boundaries of slavery by Davis, David Brion

Table of Contents: “…The origins and nature of new world slavery -- 1819: signs of a new era -- African-American abolitionism and Southern fears.…”
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Disarming manhood : roots of ethical resistance by Richards, David A. J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Ethical voice and resistance -- Garrison and antebellum radical abolitionism -- Tolstoy on nonviolence -- Gandhi on nonviolence -- King on nonviolence -- Churchill's resisting voice -- Disarming manhood.…”
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Boycott! : the Movement for the Academic Boycott of Israel. by Maira, Sunaina

Table of Contents: “…Backlash; 4. Academic Abolitionism; Acknowledgments; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography.…”
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Why America needs a left : a historical argument by Zaretsky, Eli

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: America's three great crises and three lefts -- Abolitionism and racial equality -- The popular front and social equality -- The new left and participatory democracy -- Conclusion: the American left today.…”

Non-violence : a history beyond the myth by Losurdo, Domenico

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Authorial Note -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the United States -- Chapter Two: From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy -- Chapter Three: Gandhi and the Socialist Movement -- Chapter Four: The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin's Party, and Gandhi's Party -- Chapter Five: Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War -- Chapter Six: Martin Luther King as the "Black Gandhi" and Afro-American Radicalism -- Chapter Seven: Gandhi's Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon -- Chapter Eight: From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama? …”
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"Miscegenation" : making race in America by Lemire, Elise Virginia

Table of Contents: “…The Barrier of Good Taste: Avoiding A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Wake of Abolitionism -- 4. Combating Abolitionism with the Species Argument: Race and Economic Anxieties in Poe's Philadelphia…”
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Devils and rebels : the making of Hawthorne's damned politics / Devils & rebels by Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Revolution and warfare -- Witchcraft and abolitionism -- Racism, slave narratives, and the body as evidence -- Accord in Concord -- Lies, specters, and the "black man" -- Transformative violence at home and abroad -- The stationary "fall" of a public intellectual.…”
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The rights of nature : a history of environmental ethics by Nash, Roderick

Table of Contents: “…Ethical extension and radical environmentalism --From natural rights to the rights of nature -- Ideological origins of American environmentalism -- Ecology widens the cirle -- The greening of religion -- The greening of philosophy -- Liberating nature -- Abolitionism, environmentalism, and the limits of American liberalism.…”
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Slavery and freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley by Groth, Michael E., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Slaves and slavery in the Mid-Hudson Valley -- Resistance and revolution -- The ordeal of emancipation -- An arduous struggle : from slavery to freedom -- Race and the construction of a free community -- Abolitionism, protest, and Black identity -- Black Dutchess County at midcentury.…”
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Hearts beating for liberty : women abolitionists in the old Northwest by Robertson, Stacey M.

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Standards of value : money, race, and literature in America by Germana, Michael, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and "Uncle Tom's cabin" -- Real change: George Washington Cable's "The grandissimes" and the crime of '73 -- The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism -- Black is-- an' Black ain't: "Invisible man" and the fiat of race.…”
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Standards of value : money, race, and literature in America by Germana, Michael, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Jacksonian abolitionism: money, minstrelsy, and "Uncle Tom's cabin" -- Real change: George Washington Cable's "The grandissimes" and the crime of '73 -- The gold standard of the passing novel: exploring the limits of strategic essentialism -- Black is-- an' Black ain't: "Invisible man" and the fiat of race.…”

The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race by Goetz, Rebecca Anne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Christians and Heathens in Virginia -- English Christians among the Blackest Nations -- The Rise and the Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth -- Faith in the Blood -- Baptism and the Birth of Race -- Becoming Christian, Becoming White -- The Children of Israel -- Epilogue: Christian Abolitionism and Proslavery Christianity.…”
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The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race by Goetz, Rebecca Anne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Christians and Heathens in Virginia -- English Christians among the Blackest Nations -- The Rise and the Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth -- Faith in the Blood -- Baptism and the Birth of Race -- Becoming Christian, Becoming White -- The Children of Israel -- Epilogue: Christian Abolitionism and Proslavery Christianity.…”
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Hearts beating for liberty : women abolitionists in the old Northwest by Robertson, Stacey M.

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The Tsar's abolitionists : the slave trade in the Caucasus and its suppression by Kurtynova-D'Herlugnan, Liubov

Table of Contents: “…Explaining an Unlikely Abolitionism; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Disarming manhood : roots of ethical resistance by Richards, David A. J.

Table of Contents: “…Garrison and antebellum radical abolitionism : political theory and psychology -- Ch. 2. …”
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Black liberation and socialism by Shawki, Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…Slavery in the United States -- Abolitionism -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and populism -- Accommodation, racism, and resistance -- The rise of Marcus Garvey -- The Socialist, Communist, and Trotskyist parties -- The roots of the civil rights movement -- The politics of Malcolm X -- Black power -- The Black Panthers and DRUM -- Making race a central wedge issue.…”
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Slave breeding : sex, violence, and memory in African American history by Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- American abolitionism and slave-breeding discourse -- Slavery, the lost cause, and African American history -- Black history and slave breeding in the early twentieth century -- The theater of memory -- The WPA narratives and slave breeding -- Sex, violence, and the quest for civil rights -- Slave breeding in literature, film, and new media -- Epilogue.…”
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The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law by Martinez, Jenny S.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One : Introduction -- Chapter Two : Britain and the slave trade : the rise of abolitionism -- Chapter Three : The United States and the Slave Trade : an ambivalent foe -- Chapter Four : The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter Five : Am I Not a Man and a Brother? …”

Witness for Freedom : African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. by Ripley, C. Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Witness for Freedom; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Editorial Statement; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Rise of Black Abolitionism; Chapter 2 African Americans and the Antislavery Movement; Chapter 3 Black Independence; Chapter 4 Black Abolitionists and the National Crisis; Chapter 5 Civil War; Glossary; Bibliographical Essay; Index.…”
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The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 by Bruce, Dickson D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Literary expression in the age of abolitionism, 1833-1849. -- African American voices in the American crisis, 1850-1861. -- The war for emancipation and beyond.…”
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Virtuous citizens counterpublics and sociopolitical agency in Transatlantic literature by McClellan, Kendall, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Possessed with an Idea": American Abolitionism and Counterpublic Protest -- Conclusion: Private Virtue, Counterpublics, and Political Autonomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865 by Bruce, Dickson D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Literary expression in the age of abolitionism, 1833-1849. -- African American voices in the American crisis, 1850-1861. -- The war for emancipation and beyond.…”
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Prophetic encounters : religion and the American radical tradition by McKanan, Dan, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The faith of the working men -- African identity and Black radicalism -- Encounters with William Lloyd Garrison -- Personifying radical abolitionism -- Radicals fight and unite -- Confronting the slave power -- New religions for radicalism -- Women's rights, women ministers, and a woman's Bible -- The Jesus of labor -- Encountering the city -- The religion of socialism -- The radical depression -- The Gandhian moment -- Mentors of a new left -- New encounters in the South -- Expanding circles of encounter -- From encounter to confrontation -- Rebuilding the left -- A women's decade -- Resisting the right -- The future of radicalism.…”

Black skin, blue books : African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945 by Williams, Daniel G.

Table of Contents: “…General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales; 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales; 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales; The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales; Conclusion: 1945; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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White slave crusades : race, gender, and anti-vice activism, 1887-1917 by Donovan, Brian, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…White slavery and the intersection of race and gender -- The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery genre -- Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the Women's Christian Temperance Union purity campaign -- "The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice -- John D. …”
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White slave crusades : race, gender, and anti-vice activism, 1887-1917 by Donovan, Brian, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…White slavery and the intersection of race and gender -- The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery genre -- Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the Women's Christian Temperance Union purity campaign -- "The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice -- John D. …”
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