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"Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to the antislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African American abolitionists." --Choice
"... handsome, lavishly illustrated, and informative... "
Synopsis
Courage and Conscience documents the biracial cooperation that helped shape the enlightened racial situation of 19th-century Boston. Until recently little was known of the contributions and participation of African Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Recent research, however, has revealed an impressive level of African American participation in cities of the North, particularly in Boston, one of the centers of antislavery agitation.
Synopsis
Documents the biracial cooperation that helped shape the enlighten racial situation of nineteenth-century Boston.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-231) and index.
About the Author
DONALD M. JACOBS, Professor of History at Northeastern University, is the editor of Antebellum Black Newspapers and Index to the American Slave. He is the author of While the Cabots Talked to God: Racial Conflict in Antebellum Boston, the Black Struggle, 1825-1861.
Table of Contents
Foreword by John Hope Franklin
Preface
Editor's Preface
One
David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison: Racial Cooperation and the Shaping of Boston Abolition
Donald M. Jacobs
Two
Abolitionism and the Nature of Antebellum Reform
William E. Gienapp
Three
The Art of the Antislavery Movement
Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
Four
Massachusetts Abolitionists Document the Slave Experience
Robert L. Hall
Five
Boston, Abolition, and the Atlantic World, 1820-1861
James Brewer Stewart
Six
The Affirmation of Manhood: Black Garrisonians in Antebellum Boston
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
Seven
The Black Presence in the West End of Boston, 1800-1864: A Demographic Map
Adelaide M. Cromwell
Eight
Boston's Black Churches: Institutional Centers of the Antislavery Movement
Roy E. Finkenbine
Nine
"What If I Am a Woman?" Maria W. Stewart's Defense of Black Women's Political Activism
Marilyn Richardson
Ten
Integration versus Separatism: William Cooper Nell's Role in the Struggle for Equality
Dorothy Porter Wesley
Appendixes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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