Synopses & Reviews
This five-volume documentary collectionculled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorialsreveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.
Review
The Black Abolitionist Papers represents one of the foremost examples of the art of documentary editing.
Southern Historian
Synopsis
This set is a three volume set about slavery and its history; anti-slavery movements; abolitionists; this set starts from the year 1830 and the last volume ends in the year 1865.The Black Abolitionist Papers Project began in 1976 with the mission to collect and publish the documentary record of black Americans involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States from 1830 to 1865. - From the Editorial note.