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The Abolitionists: A Collection of Their Writings

by Louis Ruchames. 259 pgs.

Contributors:

   Louis Ruchames

Publisher:

   G. P. Putnam's Sons

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1963

Subjects:

Abolitionists--United States, Slavery--United States, Antislavery Movements--United States

	Contents
	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
	Benjamin Lundy, "The Editor to the Public"	27
	William Lloyd Garrison, Commencement of the LIBERATOR	30
	The New England Anti-Slavery Society	32
	Letter from Beriah Green to Reverend S. S. Jocelyn	35
	William Lloyd Garrison, "Words of Encouragement to the Oppressed"	38
	Whittier on "Justice and Expediency"	46
	Elizur Wright, THE SIN OF SLAVERY AND ITS REMEDY; CONTAINING SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION	58
	An Abolitionist Novelist, Lydia M. Childs, Protests Slavery and Segregation	60
	Amherst College Forms an Anti-Slavery Society	71
	A Petition To Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia	73
	Lewis Tappan Speaks of William Lloyd Garrison	75
	Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society	78
	A Negro Writes of Racial Intermarriage	83
	Reverend Amos Phelps, LECTURES ON SLAVERY AND ITS REMEDY	87
	An Anti-Slavery Agent	93
	William Jay Denies That Abolitionists Are Fanatics	96
	Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to the Women of Massachusetts	100
	An Abolitionist Condemns the Attempt To Seize Texas from Mexico	103
	The Abolitionists Encourage Anti-Slavery Efforts Among Children	109
	Gerrit Smith Defends the Right of Abolitionists To Discuss Slavery	113
	Francis Jackson Defends Freedom of Speech	117
	Leaders of the American Anti-Slavery Society Reply to an Attack by President Andrew Jackson	121
	Abolition As the Cause of All Humanity	131
	A Negro Abolitionist Condemns Discrimination	135
	Elijah P. Lovejoy Defends His Right to Free Speech	139
	The Murder of Lovejoy, as Seen by Wendell Phillips	141
	An Abolitionist Study of West India Emancipation	149
	Angelina Grimkd Presents the Essence of Abolition	152
	An Abolitionist Editor Condemns Racial Discrimination	156
	An Abolitionist Protests Against the Participation of Women in the American Anti-Slavery Society	160
	Theodore Weld on American Slavery	164
	James G. Birney Frees His Slaves and Writes Against Slavery	171
	A Negro Abolitionist Protests Against Jim Crow Railroads in Massachusetts	179
	An Abolitionist View of the American Church and Slavery	185
	Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office Under the United States Constitution?	192
	A Former Slave Issues an Anti-Slavery Newspaper	197
	An Anti-Slavery Address by Theodore Parker	199
	Anti-Garrisonian Abolitionists Support the Liberty Party Candidates	209
	Wendell Phillips, "Philosophy of the Abolition Movement"	218
	William Lloyd Garrison's Farewell to the Readers of the LIBERATOR	245
	Theodore Weld's Final Evaluation of Garrison's Career	250
	Index	257

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