The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves

" The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented provocative speeches that, for the first time, addressed the slaves directly rather than aiming rebukes at white owners. By forthrightly embracing the slaves as allies and exhorting them to take action, these three addresses pointed toward a more inclusive and aggressive antislavery effort.These addresses were particularly frightening to white slaveholders who were significa

Author: Stanley Harrold
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/05/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.75w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780813122908

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 09/01/2004 pg. 86
Choice 11/01/2004 pg. 547

About the Author

Stanley Harrold, professor of history at South Carolina State University, is the author of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 and The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861.

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