Encyclopedia of Antislavery And Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0313331421 ISBN 13: 9780313331428

Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2006

Riassunto

The emergence of a sophisticated antislavery ideology and the rise of organized opposition to slavery in the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented nothing less than one of the great intellectual and social revolutions in the history of the world. This encyclopedia is organized around three principal concerns: the illustration and explication of the various forms of antislavery and its emergence as an organized movement; the immediate precipitants of abolition and the processes of its passage; and the enactment of emancipation and its consequences.

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L'autore:

Peter Hinks earned his PhD in American history from Yale University in 1993. He has taught at Yale University, Bennington College, Grinnell College, and Hamilton College. He is the author of the award-winning book,To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. He works professionally in public history and has recently co-curated the new exhibit at the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Intimate Strangers: Slavery and Freedom in Fairfield County, 1700-1850. Dr. Hinks is the senior historian for a major exhibit on slavery and its demise in New York City, Africans in New York, 1620-1865, which opened at the New York Historical Society in October 2005. With the late Professor John Blassingame and Professor Jack McKivigan, he co-edited Frederick Douglass' first two autobiographies,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom.

John McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and author ofThe War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (1984). He also is the coeditor ofThe Historical Moment: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (1994), with Randall M. Miller,Sectionalism and Religion: Essays on the Slavery Controversy in the American Churches (1998), with Mitchell Snay, andAntislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (1999), with Stanley Harrold. McKivigan is the recipient of many fellowships and grants.

Product Description:

In the early 18th century, slavery was accepted as necessary, useful, and in accord with Judeo-Christian tenets and virtues. By the mid-19th century, it had increasingly come to be viewed as the very quintessence of evil. The Encyclopedia is organized around three principal concerns: the illustration and explication of the various forms of antislavery and its emergence as an organized movement; the immediate precipitants of abolition and the processes of its passage; and the enactment of emancipation and its consequences. The entries have a worldwide focus, covering antislavery movements and important developments in slavery abolition and slave emancipation in many places around the globe. Other entries cover individuals, groups, events, documents, and organizations related to the history of abolition and emancipation over the last two centuries. The Encyclopedia addresses a wide range of topics, issues, and ideas related to the broad topic of ending historical systems of slavery and human bondage. In addition to over 400 cross-referenced entries, the Encyclopedia also includes an Introduction tracing the history of abolition and emancipation, a selected general bibliography, a guide to related topics, numerous illustrations, and a detailed subject index.

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• Editore: Greenwood Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0313331421
• ISBN 13: 9780313331428
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 856
• Redattore: Hinks Peter P., McKivigan John R., Williams R. Owen