Standard-Bearers of Equality (eBook)

America's First Abolition Movement

Paul J. Polgar (Autor)

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2019
352 Seiten
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5394-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of Americas first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the New York Manumission Society, and their African American allies during the post-Revolutionary and early national eras, he unearths this coalitions comprehensive agenda for black freedom and equality. By guarding and expanding the rights of people of African descent and demonstrating that black Americans could become virtuous citizens of the new Republic, these activists, whom Polgar names first movement abolitionists, sought to end white prejudice and eliminate racial inequality. Beginning in the 1820s, however, colonization threatened to eclipse this racially inclusive movement. Colonizationists claimed that what they saw as permanent black inferiority and unconquerable white prejudice meant that slavery could end only if those freed were exiled from the United States. In pulling many reformers into their orbit, this radically different antislavery movement marginalized the activism of Americas first abolitionists and obscured the racially progressive origins of American abolitionism that Polgar now recaptures.By reinterpreting the early history of American antislavery, Polgar illustrates that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are as integral to histories of race, rights, and reform in the United States as the mid-nineteenth century.

Autor

Paul J. Polgar is lecturer in history at Tufts University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones, 2 tables, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abolition societies • African Americans • Alexander Hamilton • American Colonization Society • Anthony Benezet • Benjamin Lundy • Benjamin Rush • black citizenship • first movement abolitionism • Freedom’s Journal • gradual abolitionism • gradual emancipation • immediate abolitionism • Integration • James Forten • John Woolman • Missouri Crisis • New York • New York City • New York Manumission Society • Northern slavery • Pennsylvania • Pennsylvania Abolition Society • Peter Williams Jr. • Philadelphia • Quakers • Race • Racial Equality • Richard Allen • Samuel Cornish • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Paine • white prejudice • William Lloyd Garrison
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-5394-X / 146965394X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5394-5 / 9781469653945