Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War
A history of the nonviolent abolitionist movement from the 1830s through the Civil War, tracing Black-white cooperation, protest tactics, and the movement's tense relationship with violence. It reads the prehistory of the civil rights movement through the concrete actions of individuals and organizations.
Work Information
By focusing on nonviolence and cooperation, the book connects abolitionism to the longer civil rights story.
This book portrays the abolitionist movement of the 1830s as both a strategy and a moral commitment to nonviolence. Following Black-white cooperation, resistance to slavery, and the movement's distance from violence, it brings into view the ideas and practices that later fed the civil rights era.
Review Summaries
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Readers value the book for recovering the people behind the nonviolent abolitionist movement and showing how Black-white cooperation challenged segregation. Its narrow focus is seen as a strength because it lets the movement's details come into view.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Macmillan Pub Co
- Published
- 1970-02-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 22.86 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780025771703
- ISBN-10
- 0025771701
- Price
- 19888 JPY
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