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Abolition and Antislavery
Peter Hinks
John McKivigan
其他書名
A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2015-07-14
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Slavery
ISBN
1610698282
9781610698283
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ihbHEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery, abolition, and emancipation.
The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery, abolition, and emancipation to illustrate the various forms of these forces and the courses they followed in the bitterly contested struggle against the institution of slavery, affording readers the most current compendium of the diverse scholarship of this important historical topic.
Geared toward readers seeking to learn about antislavery and abolition in U.S. or African American history,
Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
addresses a period of particular significance: the years that shaped the sectional debates leading up to the Civil War. The coverage encompasses both white abolitionists such as Theodore Dwight Weld and William Lloyd Garrison and black abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Delaney, and Sojourner Truth. Each alphabetically organized entry contains cross-references as "See Also" at the end of each entry text. An introductory essay ensures that all readers have a clear framework for understanding the subject, regardless of their previous background knowledge.