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The most influential abolitionist publication was Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the best-selling novel [84] by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had attended the anti-slavery debates at Lane, of which her father, Lyman Beecher, was the president.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. [1] She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
In 1836, Weld discontinued lecturing when he lost his voice, and was appointed editor of its books and pamphlets by the American Anti-Slavery Society. [23] Among the books he edited was James Thome and J. Horace Kimball's Emancipation in the West Indies : a six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837. [26]: 261
Pamphlets, picture books and periodicals were the primary forms of abolitionist children’s literature, often using Biblical themes to reinforce the wickedness of slavery. Abolitionist children's literature was countered with pro-slavery material aimed at children, which attempting to depict slavery as a noble pursuit, and slaves as stupid and ...
HathiTrust * Google Books: Herald of Freedom [3] 1835–1846 Concord, New Hampshire Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: The Herald of Freedom [4] 1851–1855: Wilmington, Ohio: John W. Chaffin: Newspapers.com: The Liberator: 1831–1865: Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison, Isaac Knapp: Digital Commonwealth (Garrison's copy) * Newspapers.com ...
The book explores potential alternatives to the prison system that could transform the justice system from a punitive instrument of control and retribution into a tool capable of changing lives for the better through a combination of autobiography and academic examination. It is a core text in the prison abolition movement. [2]
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition is a history book by Manisha Sinha [1] [2] [3] that was released in February 2016 by Yale University Press. [4] Writing in The Atlantic, Adam Rothman calls The Slave's Cause "a stunning new history of abolitionism." [1]