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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
Written by Richard S. Newman
Narrated by Janina Edwards
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From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists-including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimke-the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery-the most powerful economic and political institution of the age-across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers.
Sharply written and highly engrossing, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression.
Sharply written and highly engrossing, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression.
Author
Richard S. Newman
Richard S. Newman is assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 and an educational consultant to Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a great introduction to the people, places and events involved in abolitionism, enough to form an elementary understanding of abolitionism, enough to draw parallels to other political movements I am familiar with.
I especially appreciated how it explored the connections abolitionism had to black empowerment, feminism, and the overall fight for equality. Through my reading (listening) I have also been able to draw parallels between abolitionism and veganism.
Whenever vegans compare animal exploitation to human slavery, others tend to be offended, rejecting the notion. But truly, even a basic level of knowledge on the history of abolitionism (like this book provides) makes plain the similarities between veganism and abolitionism as political movements and as philosophies against exploitation.