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Book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld  Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah Grimke 1822 1844  Edited by Gilbert H  Barnes and Dwight L  Dummond

Download or read book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah Grimke 1822 1844 Edited by Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dummond written by Gilbert H. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld  Angelina Grimk   Weld  and Sarah Grimk    1822 1844  Edited by Gilbert H  Barnes and Dwight L  Dumond

Download or read book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld Angelina Grimk Weld and Sarah Grimk 1822 1844 Edited by Gilbert H Barnes and Dwight L Dumond written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld  Angelina Grimk   Weld and Sarah Grimk   1822 1844

Download or read book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld Angelina Grimk Weld and Sarah Grimk 1822 1844 written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld  Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke  1822 1844

Download or read book Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke 1822 1844 written by Gilbert H. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1934-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Theodor Dwight Weld  Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah Grimke  1822 1844

Download or read book Letters of Theodor Dwight Weld Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah Grimke 1822 1844 written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimk

Download or read book The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimk written by Larry Ceplair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke were the first women in America coming from a southern slave-holding family to speak publicly on behalf of the abolition of slavery.Creating a stir of controversy soon afterwards during the 1830s especially with the force of their testimony before the Massachusetts State Legislature, they soon found themselves defending publicly and at length the right of women to speak on moral and political issues and on the end of the subordination of women. The editor of this collection of eloquent political writings, Larry Ceplair, has written a critical introduction situating the Grimkes' in an historical and political context in which he describes the significance of their thought and work. Of special interest is the inclusion of writings documenting the Grimke sisters activities that preceded by 11 years the first woman's rights convention in America, held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848.Most of the Grimke sisters writings are out of print today. Mr. Ceplair's efforts will be greatly appreciated by those interested in the history of feminist theory, antebellum history.

Book And the Spirit Moved Them

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  • Author : Helen LaKelly Hunt
  • Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2017-04-17
  • ISBN : 1558614281
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book And the Spirit Moved Them written by Helen LaKelly Hunt and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a ‘call for renewed feminist action, based on “the spirit and ethic of love’” (Kirkus Reviews). A decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in the first instance of political organizing by American women for American women. Incited by “holy indignation,” these pioneers believed it was their God-given duty to challenge both slavery and patriarchy. Although the convention was largely written out of history for its religious and interracial character, these women created a blueprint for an intersectional feminism that was centuries ahead of its time. Part historical investigation, part personal memoir, Hunt traces how her research into nineteenth-century organizing led her to become one of the most significant philanthropists in modern history. Her journey to confront her position of power meant taking control of an oil fortune that was being deployed on her behalf but without her knowledge, and acknowledging the feminist faith animating her life’s work.

Book The Grimk   Sisters from South Carolina

Download or read book The Grimk Sisters from South Carolina written by Gerda Lerner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.

Book The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom

Download or read book The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom written by Alexander Tsesis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving force that led to the adoption of an amendment that ultimately provided a substantive assurance of freedom for all American citizens. The story of how Supreme Court justices have interpreted the Thirteenth Amendment, first through racist lenses after Reconstruction and later influenced by the modern civil rights movement, provides insight into the tremendous impact the Thirteenth Amendment has had on the Constitution and American culture. Importantly, Tsesis also explains why the Thirteenth Amendment is essential to contemporary America, offering fresh analysis on the role the Amendment has played regarding civil rights legislation and personal liberty case decisions, and an original explanation of the substantive guarantees of freedom for today's society that the Reconstruction Congress envisioned over a century ago.

Book Bonds of Salvation

Download or read book Bonds of Salvation written by Ben Wright and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Wright’s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, and political maneuvering as primary forces in the evolution of slavery in the United States. Wright instead foregrounds the pivotal role religion played in shaping the ideological contours of the early abolitionist movement. Wright first examines the ideological distinctions between religious conversion and purification in the aftermath of the Revolution, when a small number of white Christians contended that the nation must purify itself from slavery before it could fulfill its religious destiny. Most white Christians disagreed, focusing on visions of spiritual salvation over the practical goal of emancipation. To expand salvation to all, they created new denominations equipped to carry the gospel across the American continent and eventually all over the globe. These denominations established numerous reform organizations, collectively known as the “benevolent empire,” to reckon with the problem of slavery. One affiliated group, the American Colonization Society (ACS), worked to end slavery and secure white supremacy by promising salvation for Africa and redemption for the United States. Yet the ACS and its efforts drew strong objections. Proslavery prophets transformed expectations of expanded salvation into a formidable antiabolitionist weapon, framing the ACS's proponents as enemies of national unity. Abolitionist assertions that enslavers could not serve as agents of salvation sapped the most potent force in American nationalism—Christianity—and led to schisms within the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches. These divides exacerbated sectional hostilities and sent the nation farther down the path to secession and war. Wright’s provocative analysis reveals that visions of salvation both created and almost destroyed the American nation.

Book Beyond the River

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  • Author : Ann Hagedorn
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-06-30
  • ISBN : 1439128669
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Beyond the River written by Ann Hagedorn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley’s riverfront houses. And you can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river. In Beyond the River, Ann Hagedorn tells the remarkable story of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad, bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and white, who fought “the war before the war” along the Ohio River. Determined in their cause, Rankin, his family, and his fellow abolitionists—some of them former slaves themselves—risked their lives to guide thousands of runaways safely across the river into the free state of Ohio, even when a sensational trial in Kentucky threatened to expose the Ripley “conductors.” Rankin, the leader of the Ripley line and one of the early leaders of the antislavery movement, became nationally renowned after the publication of his Letters on American Slavery, a collection of letters he wrote to persuade his brother in Virginia to renounce slavery. A vivid narrative about memorable people, Beyond the River is an inspiring story of courage and heroism that transports us to another era and deepens our understanding of the great social movement known as the Underground Railroad.

Book The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey

Download or read book The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves northward in the night, dodging slave catchers and sheriffs, and involving members of Congress in his schemes. Nonetheless, the historiography of abolitionism has largely overlooked Torrey's fascinating and compelling story. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey presents the first comprehensive biography of one of America's most dedicated abolitionists. According to author E. Fuller Torrey, a distant relative, Charles Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to become more political and active. He helped advance the faction that challenged the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, provoking an irreversible schism in the movement and making Torrey and Garrison bitter enemies. Torrey played an important role in the formation of the Liberty Party and in the emergence of political abolitionism. Not satisfied with the slow pace of change, he also pioneered aggressive abolitionism by personally freeing slaves, likely liberating more than any other person. In doing so, he inspired many others, including John Brown, who cited Torrey as one of his role models. E. Fuller Torrey's study not only fills a substantial gap in the history of abolitionism but restores Charles Torrey to his rightful place as one of the most dedicated and significant abolitionists in American history.

Book Antebellum American Culture

Download or read book Antebellum American Culture written by David Brion Davis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-11-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum Americans. He places these sources within a clear interpretive narrative that brings the documents to life and highlights themes that social and cultural historians have brought to our attention in recent years. Beginning with the family and the issue of socialization and influence, the units move on to struggles over access to wealth and power; the plight of "outsiders" in an "open" society; and ideals of progress, perfection, and mission. The reader of this volume hears a great diversity of voices but also grasps the unities that survived even the Civil War.

Book Abolition s Axe

Download or read book Abolition s Axe written by Milton C. Sernett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer, and one of New York's most important abolitionists, this book is the first published history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.