Confronting Slavery : : Edward Coles and the Rise of Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America / / Suzanne Cooper Guasco.
Edward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antislavery correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in 1814, freeing his slaves in 1819, and leading the campaign against the legalization of slavery in Illinois during the 1823-24 convention contest.In this new full-length biogra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 12 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Becoming Antislavery
- 2. Antislavery Ambition Deferred
- 3. Pioneering Antislavery Politics
- 4. Crafting an Antislavery Nationalism
- 5. Antislavery Reform Denied
- 6. Antislavery Aspirations Redirected
- 7. Antislavery Nationalism Resurrected
- Afterword
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index