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"Reprinted from The South in the building of the nation (vol. iv)" ; Bibliography : p. 422. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 "Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty": The Crucial Elements of Exclusion and Social Control in Pennsylvania's Early Antislavery Movement -- 2 "A certain simple grandeur . . . which awakens the benevolent heart": The American Colonization Society's Effective Marketing in Pennsylvania -- 3 "Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society": Mathew Carey and the Political and Economic Side of African Colonization -- 4 "We here mean literally what we say": Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society's Humanitarian Agenda -- 5 "They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people": James Forten and African American Ambivalence to African Colonization -- 6 "A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist": Benjamin Coates and Black Uplift in the United States and Africa -- 7 "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands": Martin R. Delany and the Role of Self-Help and Emigration in Black Uplift -- 8 "Maybe the Devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace": Assessing the Successes and Failures of Pennsylvania's Competing Antislavery Agendas -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to show how the first free-born generation helped to shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery world. Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.

"In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of Massachusetts. While Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved people brought to Massachusetts could not be held against their will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law"--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE: "The power that giveth liberty and freedom" BARBADOS, 1657-76 -- TWO: "We are against the traffik of men-body" PENNSYLVANIA, 1688-1700 -- THREE: "The grief of divers friends" PENNSYLVANIA-LONDON-NEW JERSEY, 1711-19 -- FOUR: "O unrighteous gain!" FROM RHETORIC TO RITUAL, 1727-43 -- FIVE: "A practice so repugnant to our Christian profession" PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON, 1753-61 -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Imperfect: all after p. 59 wanting. ; Bibliography: p. 59+. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Reprinted from Deutsch-Amerikanische Geschichtsblätter, Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois--Jahrgang 1918-19 (Vol. XVIII-XIX)." ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will reformat

Three-page letter dated June 30, 1853, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, disucssing the travels of Mrs. [Frances] Bradburn, the political stance of Horace Mann, and other ablolitionist news.

Four-page letter dated December 26, 1852, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to [Lysander] Spooner, disucssing displeasure with his job [at the True Democrat] in Cleveland and other abolitionist news.

Four-page letter dated May 18, 1851, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to [Lysander] Spooner, reagarding his relationship with abolitionist paper the "True Democrat" and other abolitionist news.