Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

Professor Richard Newman (Editor), James Mueller (Editor), Professor Dee Andrews, Gary Nash, Ira Berlin, W Caleb McDaniel, Professor of Theatre Heather S Nathans, Elizabeth Varon, Book Reviews David Waldstreicher, and Julie P Winch

Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays by a distinguished group of historians, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalised status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War.

Philadelphia was the home to the Society of Friends, which offered the first public attack on slavery in the 1680s; the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the western world's first antislavery group; and to generations of abolitionists who organised some of early America's most important civil rights groups.

These abolitionists -- black, white, religious, secular, male, female -- grappled with the meaning of black freedom earlier and more consistently than anyone else in early American culture. Cutting-edge academic views illustrate Philadelphia's antislavery movement, how it survived societal opposition, and how it remained vital to evolving notions of racial justice.

• ISBN10: 0807139947
• ISBN13: 9780807139943
• Publish Date: 14 November 2011
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: LSU Press
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 272
• Language: English