Courage and conscience : Black & white abolitionists in Boston / edited by Donald M. Jacobs.

Contributor(s): Jacobs, Donald MMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington, IN : Published for the Boston Athenaeum by Indiana University Press, c1993Description: xvi, 237 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: 0253331986 (cl : alk. paper); 9780253331984 (cl : alk. paper); 0253207932 (pa : alk. paper); 9780253207937 (pa : alk. paper)Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- United States | Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Boston (Mass.) -- Race relationsLOC classification: E449 | .C86 1993
Contents:
David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison : racial cooperation and the shaping of Boston abolition / Donald M. Jacobs -- Abolitionism and the nature of antebellum reform / William E. Gienapp -- The art of the antislavery movement / Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. -- Massachusetts abolitionists document the slave experience / Robert L. Hall -- Boston, abolition, and the Atlantic world, 1820-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- The affirmation of manhood : Black Garrisonians in antebellum Boston / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton -- The Black presence in the west end of Boston, 1800-1864 : a demographic map / Adelaide M. Cromwell -- Boston's Black churches : institutional centers of the antislavery movement / Roy E. Finkenbine -- "What if I am a woman?" : Maria W. Stewart's defense of Black women's political activism / Marilyn Richardson.
Integration versus separatism : William Cooper Nell's role in the struggle for equality / Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Summary: Until recently little was known of the contributions of African Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Massachusetts, having granted voting rights early on to black males, was a center of antislavery agitation. Courage and Conscience documents the black activism in 19th-century Boston that was critical to the success of the abolitionist cause. --From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-231) and index.

David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison : racial cooperation and the shaping of Boston abolition / Donald M. Jacobs -- Abolitionism and the nature of antebellum reform / William E. Gienapp -- The art of the antislavery movement / Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. -- Massachusetts abolitionists document the slave experience / Robert L. Hall -- Boston, abolition, and the Atlantic world, 1820-1861 / James Brewer Stewart -- The affirmation of manhood : Black Garrisonians in antebellum Boston / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton -- The Black presence in the west end of Boston, 1800-1864 : a demographic map / Adelaide M. Cromwell -- Boston's Black churches : institutional centers of the antislavery movement / Roy E. Finkenbine -- "What if I am a woman?" : Maria W. Stewart's defense of Black women's political activism / Marilyn Richardson.

Integration versus separatism : William Cooper Nell's role in the struggle for equality / Dorothy Porter Wesley.

Until recently little was known of the contributions of African Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Massachusetts, having granted voting rights early on to black males, was a center of antislavery agitation. Courage and Conscience documents the black activism in 19th-century Boston that was critical to the success of the abolitionist cause. --From publisher's description.

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