Courage and Conscience
Title | Courage and Conscience PDF eBook |
Author | Donald M. Jacobs |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253331984 |
"Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to the antislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African American abolitionists." --Choice "... handsome, lavishly illustrated, and informative... " --The New England Quarterly "... this work is a thoughtful, long overdue discourse on individual and group accomplishments. It is replete with absorbing illustrations, which when accompanied by insightful essays, depict the courage of those who labored for equality in antebellum Boston." --Journal of the Early Republic 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.
Boston's Abolitionists
Title | Boston's Abolitionists PDF eBook |
Author | Kerri Greenidge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781933212197 |
In the years before the Civil War, Boston's black leaders helped fight slavery from a vibrant African-American community on Beacon Hill.
Boston and the Civil War
Title | Boston and the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara F Berenson |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625840241 |
A history of the American Civil War as experienced by the people of Boston. Boston’s black and white abolitionists forged a second American revolution dedicated to ending slavery and honoring the promise of liberty made in the Declaration of Independence. Before the war, Bostonians were bitterly divided between those who supported the Union and those opposed to its endorsement of slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act brought the horrors of slavery close to home and led many to join the abolitionists. March to war with Boston’s brave soldiers, including the grandson of Patriot Paul Revere and the Fighting Irish. The all-black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment battled against both slavery and discrimination, while Boston’s women fought tirelessly against slavery and for their own right to be full citizens of the Union. Join local historian and author Barbara F. Berenson on a thrilling and memorable journey through Civil War Boston.
The Liberty Bell
Title | The Liberty Bell PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Weston Chapman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1848 |
Genre | African American authors |
ISBN |
The Boston Gentlemen's Mob
Title | The Boston Gentlemen's Mob PDF eBook |
Author | Josh S. Cutler |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439673977 |
Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other "gentlemen of property and standing" angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the courage to speak out. Author Josh Cutler tells the story of the Gentlemen's Mob through the eyes of four key participants: antislavery reformer Maria Chapman; pioneering schoolteacher Susan Paul; the city's establishment mayor, Theodore Lyman; and Wendell Phillips, a young attorney who wanders out of his office to watch the spectacle. The day's events forever changed the course of the abolitionist movement.
The African-American Mosaic
Title | The African-American Mosaic PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Title | Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society PDF eBook |
Author | Boston Female Anti-slavery Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | Antislavery movements |
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