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Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

Author: C Peter Ripley
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Witness for freedom.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993
(OCoLC)756453385
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: C Peter Ripley
ISBN: 0807820725 9780807820728 0807844047 9780807844045
OCLC Number: 26013077
Description: xxiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms --
African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement --
Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means --
Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown --
Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.
Responsibility: C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone.

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