The struggle against slavery : a history in documents / David Waldstreicher.

By: Waldstreicher, DavidMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pages from historyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001Description: 173 p. : ill., map ; 27 cmISBN: 0195108507; 9780195108507Subject(s): Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- Sources -- Juvenile literature | Free African Americans -- Social conditions -- Sources -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature | Slave insurrections -- United States -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literatureGenre/Form: Juvenile materials. DDC classification: 306.3/62/0973 LOC classification: E447 | .W35 2001
Contents:
What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Vanguards of freedom -- The making of American slavery. Capture and transport -- Early resistance -- Slaves' lives in the colonies -- Rebels and runaways -- The African-American revolution. Liberty for all? -- Lord Dunmore and the promise of freedom -- The Declaration of Independence and the question of slavery -- Revolutionary soldiers -- Equality disputed -- Revolutionary ideals -- Forging freedom and fighting slavery in the north. First steps to freedom -- An end to the slave trade -- Opponents to colonization -- Free blacks speak out -- Another independence day -- The call for civil rights -- Slavery and freedom: dressing the part -- The continual struggle: southern slaves and masters. Private and public rebellion -- Disobedience and discipline -- Subversion, suffering, and escape -- The second American revolution and the end of slavery. Justified rebellion -- A welcome war -- Emancipation -- Liberation.
Summary: A collection of primary sources, from the colonial era to the Civil War, that document the struggle of free blacks, slaves, and other Americans to end slavery.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-168) and index.

What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Vanguards of freedom -- The making of American slavery. Capture and transport -- Early resistance -- Slaves' lives in the colonies -- Rebels and runaways -- The African-American revolution. Liberty for all? -- Lord Dunmore and the promise of freedom -- The Declaration of Independence and the question of slavery -- Revolutionary soldiers -- Equality disputed -- Revolutionary ideals -- Forging freedom and fighting slavery in the north. First steps to freedom -- An end to the slave trade -- Opponents to colonization -- Free blacks speak out -- Another independence day -- The call for civil rights -- Slavery and freedom: dressing the part -- The continual struggle: southern slaves and masters. Private and public rebellion -- Disobedience and discipline -- Subversion, suffering, and escape -- The second American revolution and the end of slavery. Justified rebellion -- A welcome war -- Emancipation -- Liberation.

A collection of primary sources, from the colonial era to the Civil War, that document the struggle of free blacks, slaves, and other Americans to end slavery.

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