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"The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves"--

Introduction -- Elite Abolitionism -- Pro-Slavery Rhetoric -- The Moral Repertoire of Abolitionism -- The Theatricalization of Politics -- Expansion -- Results-Based Abolitionism -- Votes: A Movement/Government Alliance -- Bullets: Movement and Countermovement -- The March to Victory -- Future of the Preterite -- Abolitionism as a Social Movement.

"Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors' voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of more effective interventions"--

A call to consciousness, 1831-1843 -- From concern to crusade, 1843-1849 -- Upheaval in our town, 1850-1854 -- Call to war, 1855-1868

No taint of compromise : varieties of antislavery leadership -- A self-sharpening plough : Alvan Stewart's challenge to slavery -- To mitigate the suffering of our countrymen : John Greenleaf Whittier, abolitionist poet -- Black men have no rights which white men are bound to respect : Charles Langston and the drive for equality -- The barbarism of slavery : Owen Lovejoy and the congressional assault on slavery -- Freemen to the rescue : Sherman M. Booth and the Fugitive Slave Act -- Free men, free soil, and free homes : Jane Swisshelm's search -- My triumph had no taint of compromise : George Washington Julian, free soiler-republican -- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude : David Wilmont and the containment of slavery -- The plight of slavery will cover the land : Benjamin and Edward Wade, brothers in antislavery politics -- Quite a female politician : Jessie Benton Frémont and the antislavery movement -- Crusaders in antislavery politics : a shared commitment

Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war

"Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships, 're-capturing' almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and beyond. In this wide-ranging study, Maeve Ryan explores the set of imperial experiments that took shape as British authorities sought to order and instrumentalise the liberated Africans, and examines the dual discourses of compassion and control that evolved around a people expected to repay the debt of their salvation. Ryan traces the ideas that shaped 'disposal' policies towards liberated Africans, and the forms of resistance and accommodation that characterized their responses. This book demonstrates the impact of interventionist experiments on the lives of the liberated people, on the evolution of a British antislavery 'world system,' and on the emergence of modern understandings of refuge, asylum, and humanitarian governance."--

A life of conscience -- The early Quaker antislavery movement -- An antislavery intellect develops -- Visions of Africa -- Building an antislavery consensus in North America -- Transatlantic beginnings and the British antislavery movement -- Benezet and the antislavery movement in France -- African voices -- Epilogue: Anthony Benezet's dream

"Proslavery Britain tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire at the height of the slavery debates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art and literature to propaganda and parliamentary papers, it explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation"--

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries