Against Slavery: An Abolitionist ReaderMason Lowance Penguin, 1 февр. 2000 г. - Всего страниц: 384 "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... labor induced by Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s and the worldwide demand for cotton goods. Like Virginia tobacco, which was exported to England and Europe even during the years of the American Revolution ...
... labor induced by Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s and the worldwide demand for cotton goods. Like Virginia tobacco, which was exported to England and Europe even during the years of the American Revolution ...
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... labor. By 1850, “King Cotton” was the leading export of the United States, and a disruption of this production was rightly feared to threaten the larger economy of the country. But for the abolitionists, the two decades preceding the ...
... labor. By 1850, “King Cotton” was the leading export of the United States, and a disruption of this production was rightly feared to threaten the larger economy of the country. But for the abolitionists, the two decades preceding the ...
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... labor to develop his landholdings. When he was only nineteen years old, he already owned over fourteen hundred acres of Virginia farmland west of the Blue Ridge Mountains because he had received much of this land in lieu of payment for ...
... labor to develop his landholdings. When he was only nineteen years old, he already owned over fourteen hundred acres of Virginia farmland west of the Blue Ridge Mountains because he had received much of this land in lieu of payment for ...
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... like John Woolman, was troubled greatly by the obvious inhumanity of chattel slavery. However, Jefferson was also a product of his times, and, like George Washington, owned a large Virginia plantation which required labor to maintain.
... like John Woolman, was troubled greatly by the obvious inhumanity of chattel slavery. However, Jefferson was also a product of his times, and, like George Washington, owned a large Virginia plantation which required labor to maintain.
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An Abolitionist Reader Mason Lowance. owned a large Virginia plantation which required labor to maintain. His Notes on the State of Virginia (1782) reveals that he was deeply divided over the slavery issue. On the one hand, he argued ...
An Abolitionist Reader Mason Lowance. owned a large Virginia plantation which required labor to maintain. His Notes on the State of Virginia (1782) reveals that he was deeply divided over the slavery issue. On the one hand, he argued ...
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Phillis Wheatley 17531784 | |
Frederick Douglass 18181895 | |
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