Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston

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.

Author: Donald M. Jacobs
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 03/22/1993
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 10.68h x 8.43w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780253207937

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/1993

About the Author

DONALD M. JACOBS, Professor of History at Northeastern University, is the editor of Antebellum Black Newspapers and Index to the American Slave. He is the author of While the Cabots Talked to God: Racial Conflict in Antebellum Boston, the Black Struggle, 1825-1861.