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14) Let my people go: the story of the Underground Railroad and the growth of the abolition movement
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First published in 1941, Henrietta Buckmaster's Let My People Go remains the definitive account of the Underground Railroad, the Abolition Movement, and the African American struggle to be free. It is a synthesis of the momentous events that provoked a bloody Civil War and a turbulent Reconstruction. Center stage in this splendid narrative is the quest for freedom and the resistance this movement encountered. Buckmaster has captured with detail and...
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From the Blurb: American abolitionists found little upon which to agree beyond the single goal of the emancipation of slaves. To underscore this diversity, Jane and William Pease have presented the biographies of ten reformers, demonstrating the diversity of goals, motives, life styles, and insights of the antislavery leaders. These dissimilarities were mirrored in the anti-slavery societies, so that little was done in chorus. Yet the abolition movement...
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This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. The personal account of a fugitive slave's privation and sufferings and his campaigns for Negro emancipation. This dramatic autobiography of the...
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"A generation before the Civil War, riots flared up in many Northern cities. In New York, Boston, Utica, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, tormented free blacks, and razed the Negro quarters; and in Alton, Illinois, the newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy was slain. What motivated these zealous northern anti-abolitionists? Who were they, and why were they so hostile to antislavery movements? Judiciously applying modern social science...
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