Newman - Abolitionism: a very short introduction

From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint LOuverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimk - the book highlights abolitionists focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery - the most powerful economic and political institution of the age - across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers. Sharply written and highly readable, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression.-- Publisher information.;Abolitionist Agitation in a World of Slavery and Pain -- Early Abolitionism: Prophets vs. Profits -- The Rise of Black Abolitionism and Global Anti-Slavery Struggles -- The Time Is Now: The Rise of Immediate Abolition -- The Abolitionist Crossroads -- The Abolitionist Renaissance and the Coming of the Civil War -- American Emancipations: Abolitionism in the Civil War Era -- Abolitionist Endings in the Atlantic World and New Beginnings.