The Transformation of American Abolitionism

Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic

• Author(s): Richard S. Newman,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 0807849987
  ISBN_13: 9780807849989
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) , History / United States / 19th Century , Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the