Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader

by Mason I. Lowance Jr. (Editor), Theodore Dwight Weld (Contributor), Alexander Crummell (Contributor)

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."— Amazon.com

This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Genres: History, Politics, Classics, Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1996

Reviews

[Casey Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Primary sources of speeches and writings of abolitionists in antebellum America. An excellent way to learn about what abolitionists thought and wrote about before the Civil War.