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Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Virginia Hamilton
Laurel Leaf, 1993
Teach children well
This 1993 non-fiction biography addresses slavery in the U.S., through the spell-binding story of Anthony Burns, who was captured and tried in 1854 Boston as a fugitive slave. Chapters alternate between 1854 and the 1840s, when Burns spent his boyhood and youth as the ...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
LeClue, 2008
"Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly" is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
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A Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words About American Slave Childr
Various
BiblioBazaar, 2007
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William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
William Hague
HarperPerennial, 2008
A beacon of light
"A beacon of light which the passing of two centuries has scarcely dimmed". This is Hague's concluding assessment of Wilberforce. This fine biography should keep that light blazing. I think it will probably be the definitive biography of the great abolitionist for ...
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The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
William W. Freehling
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
Important like the rest of his work
This like the rest of Freehling's work is important. In recent years a trend has developed to submerge the central issue of the civil war--slavery--in a myriad of other issues leading to the war and thus diminishing the importance of the war for the US and the World. ...
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Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States
Bernard Mandel
University of Illinois Press, 2007
A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white ...
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Classic Slave Narratives, ...
BompaCrazy.com, 2008
Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This collection of classic slave narratives includes The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, and The History of Mary Prince.
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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
Elizabeth R. Varon
The University of North Carolina Press, 2008
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders' singular effort to establish a ...
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William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
William Hague
Harcourt, 2008
Wilberforce: A man for all seasons
William Wilberforce was the ideal political reformer. He brought together an amazing combination of strengths: personal wealth, a friendly personality, good connections, moral seriousness, rhetorical skill, a sincere faith, a practical mind, and a bulldog's tenacity. ...
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French Anti-Slavery: The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848
Lawrence C. Jennings
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Some works have examined the first and temporary abolition of French colonial slavery during the French Revolutionary era, but relatively little is known about the second French abolitionist movement that culminated in the freeing of a quarter of a million slaves in 1848. This book fills the huge gap in existing historiography by providing the ...
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Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery:
Nini Rodgers
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic, showing how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in eighteenth-century Ireland and discussing the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America. It traces the development of the Irish anti-slavery movement explaining why it appealed to such prominent ...
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The First annual report of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the abolition of slavery and the ...
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
Cornell University Library, 1840
This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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America: The Origin Of Her Present Conflict, Her Prospect For The Slave, And Her Claim For Anti-Slavery ...
James William Massie
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008
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A Testimony against that anti-Christian practice of making slaves of men: wherein it is shewed to be contrary ...
Elihu Coleman
Cornell University Library, 1825
This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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Courage Beyond Words
Christopher Robbins
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Grains of salt indeed
This new edition of Michel Thomas's biography contains a new final chapter, which describes Thomas's battle in the final years of his life to counter the false and misleading implications of a 2001 profile in the LA Times by its former humor columnist Roy Rivenburg. ...
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