| Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader Contributor(s): Lowance, Mason (Editor), Lowance, Mason (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140437584 ISBN-13: 9780140437584 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: For as long as the scourge of slavery afflicted America, brave voices cried out against the pernicious institution. Those eloquent cries resound again in this original anthology of primary documents from the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century antislavery and abolitionist movements. Mason Lowance has assembled more than forty crucial speeches, lectures, and essays to trace the evolution of the most important and revolutionary reform in American history: the abolitionist crusade. Here are the riveting words of the men and women who led the crusade, including William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In gathering the voices that still summon "the better angels of our nature", Against Slavery will be an invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 326.809 |
| LCCN: 99016211 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 4.96" W x 7.75" (0.59 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |