The Black Abolitionist Papers

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Description

This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials--reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.

Sujets

• 19th Century
• Histoire
• Canadá
• Fugitive slave laws
• British Isles
• Canada
• United States
• Civil War
• History

Informations

• Publié par: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date de parution: 09 novembre 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798890866455
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

Extrait

The Black Abolitionist Papers

Board of Editorial Advisors

Irving H. Bartlett John W. Blassingame E. David Cronon Helen G. Edmonds Lawrence J. Friedman William R. Jones Leon F. Litwack Philip Morgan William H. Pease Lewis Perry Dorothy B. Porter Benjamin Quarles Joe M. Richardson George Shepperson James Morton Smith Jerome Stern Howard Temperley Earl E. Thorpe Robin Winks Esmond Wright

The Black Abolitionist Papers

VOLUME V The United States, 1859–1865

C. Peter Ripley, Editor Roy E. Finkenbine,Associate Editor Michael F. Hembree,Assistant Editor Donald Yacovone,Assistant Editor

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The Black abolitionist papers.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. The British Isles, 1830–1865— v. 2. Canada, 1830–1865—v. 3. The United States, 1830–1846—v. 5. The United States, 1859–1865. 1. Slavery—United States—Antislavery movements— Sources. 2. Abolitionists—United States—History—19th century—Sources. 3. Abolitionists—History 19th cen tury—Sources. 4. AfroAmericans—History—To 1863— Sources. I. Ripley, C. Peter, 1941– E449.B624 1985 973'.0496 8413131 ISBN 08078 16256 (v. 1) ISBN 08078 16981 (v. 2) ISBN 08078 19263 (v. 3) ISBN 08078 19743 (v. 4) ISBN 08078 20075 (v. 5)

The preparation and publication of this volume were made possible in part by grants from the Program for Editions and the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, The Florida State University, the Skaggs Foundation, and the H. W. Wilson Foundation.

For Benjamin Quarles

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Contents

Illustrations xv

Maps xvi

Acknowledgments xvii

Abbreviations xix

Editorial Statement xxiii

Documents

The Emigration Alternative: Circular by the African Civilization Society, 16 February 1859; Essay by James Theodore Holly, [May 1859]

William J. Whipper to Benjamin S. Jones, 15 April 1859

Samuel Ringgold Ward to G. W. Reynolds, 7 May 1859

Thomas Hamilton to John Jay, 27 May 1859 Essay by William J. Watkins, 5 September 1859 Henry Highland Garnet to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 14 September 1859

7. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 5 November 1859 8. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 19 November 1859 9. John A. Copeland, Jr., and the Harpers Ferry Raid: John A. Copeland, Jr., to John A. Copeland, Sr., and Delilah Copeland, 26 November 1859; John A. Copeland, Jr., to Addison M. Halbert, 10 December 1859 10. Resolutions by William Lambert, Presented at the Second Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, 2 December 1859 11. Circular by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper for Arkansas Free Blacks, January 1860 12. Speech by John S. Rock, Delivered at the Meionaon, Boston, Massachusetts, 5 March 1860 13. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 17 March 1860

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14. William Anderson to William C. Nell, April 1860 15. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Jane E. Hitchcock Jones, 21 September 1860 16. James McCune Smith and the Struggle for Equal Suffrage: James McCune Smith to Stephen A. Myers, 21 September 1860; James McCune Smith to Gerrit Smith, 20 October 1860 17. Speech by H. Ford Douglas, Delivered at the Town Hall, Salem, Ohio, 23 September 1860 18. Editorial by Thomas Hamilton, 22 December 1860 19. James McCune Smith to Henry Highland Garnet, 30 December 1860, 5 January 1861 20. Editorials by George Lawrence, Jr., 13 April 1861, 27 April 1861 21. James McCune Smith to Gerrit Smith, 22 August 1861 22. The Black Role in the Civil War: "R. H. V." to Robert Hamilton, September 1861; Alfred M. Green to Robert Hamilton, October 1861 23. Petition of William E. Walker to the United States Congress, December 1861 24. Robert Hamilton to John Jay, 27 January 1862 25. John Oliver to William L. Coan, 5 February 1862 26. "What Shall We Do with the Contrabands?," by James Madison Bell 27. Report by William Still, 22 May 1862 28. Editorial by Philip A. Bell, 14 June 1862 29. William H. Parham to Jacob C. White, Jr., 7 September 1862 30. George B. Vashon to Abraham Lincoln, [September 1862] 31. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 25 November 1862, 17 February 1863 32. H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass, 8 January 1863 33. H. Ford Douglas to Ralph Roberts, 11 January 1863 34. John Oliver to Simeon S. Jocelyn, 14 January 1863

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