{"product_id":"against-slavery-isbn-9780140437584","title":"Against Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.AGAINST SLAVERY: An Abolitionst Reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003exiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING\u003cbr\u003exxxvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. The Historical Background for Antebellum Abolitionism, 1700-1830\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e3\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph (1700)\u003cbr\u003e11\u003cbr\u003eJohn Saffin, A Brief Candid Answer to The Selling of Joseph (1701)\u003cbr\u003e15\u003cbr\u003eCotton Mather, The Negro Christianized (1706)\u003cbr\u003e18\u003cbr\u003eJohn Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754 and 1762)\u003cbr\u003e21\u003cbr\u003ePhillis Wheatley, \"On Being Brought from Africa to America\" (1773)\u003cbr\u003e25\u003cbr\u003eThomas Jefferson, from the Declaration of Independence (1776)\u003cbr\u003e28\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Story, \"Charge to the Grand Jury of Maine, May 8, 1820\"\u003cbr\u003e29\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Douglass, \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" (1852)\u003cbr\u003e38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. The Biblical Antislavery Arguments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e49\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Dwight Weld, The Bible Against Slavery (1837)\u003cbr\u003e53\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Crummell, \"An Address to the British Antislavery Society\" (1851)\u003cbr\u003e59\u003cbr\u003eJames Freeman Clarke, Slavery in the United States (1843)\u003cbr\u003e63\u003cbr\u003eAlexander McLeod, Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802 and 1846)\u003cbr\u003e70\u003cbr\u003eRobert Dale Owen, The Wrong of Slavery (1864)\u003cbr\u003e81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Abolitionist Crusade, 1830-1865\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e87\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Lloyd Garrison, \"An Address to the American Colonization Society\" (1829)\u003cbr\u003e92\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"Commencement of The Liberator,\" editorial (1831)\u003cbr\u003e103\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"Truisms\" (1831)\u003cbr\u003e105\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"Henry Clay's Colonization Address\" (1830)\u003cbr\u003e108\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"The Great [Constitutional] Crisis\" (1832)\u003cbr\u003e112\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"American Colorphobia\" (1847)\u003cbr\u003e117\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"Declaration of the National Antislavery Convention\" (1833)\u003cbr\u003e119\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"Speech at the Fourth National Women's Rights Convention\" (1853)\u003cbr\u003e122\u003cbr\u003eGarrison, \"No Compromise with Slavery\" (1854)\u003cbr\u003e125\u003cbr\u003eDavid Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)\u003cbr\u003e131\u003cbr\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier, \"Massachusetts to Virginia\" (1843)\u003cbr\u003e144\u003cbr\u003eWhittier, Justice and Expediency (1833)\u003cbr\u003e149\u003cbr\u003eLydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)\u003cbr\u003e154\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Ellery Channing, Slavery (1835)\u003cbr\u003e176\u003cbr\u003eGerrit Smith, \"Letter to the Rev. Smylie\" (1837)\u003cbr\u003e192\u003cbr\u003eAngelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836)\u003cbr\u003e197\u003cbr\u003eSarah Moore Grimké, \"An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States\" (1836)\u003cbr\u003e203\u003cbr\u003eCatherine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1837)\u003cbr\u003e207\u003cbr\u003eAngelina Grimké, Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (1838)\u003cbr\u003e220\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is (1839)\u003cbr\u003e224\u003cbr\u003eRev. Roy Sunderland, An Antislavery Manual (1837)\u003cbr\u003e228\u003cbr\u003eHorace Bushnell, \"A Discourse on the Slavery Question\" (1839)\u003cbr\u003e229\u003cbr\u003eJames McCune Smith, The Destiny of a People of Color (1843)\u003cbr\u003e235\u003cbr\u003eWendell Phillips, The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Compact (1845)\u003cbr\u003e241\u003cbr\u003ePhillips, Philosophy of the Abolition Movement (1853)\u003cbr\u003e246\u003cbr\u003eLysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845)\u003cbr\u003e252\u003cbr\u003eJames Russell Lowell, \"Mr. Calhoun's Report,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, February 15,1849\u003cbr\u003e258\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"The Abolitionists and Emancipation,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, March 1, 1849\u003cbr\u003e258\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"Politics and the Pulpit,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, January 25, 1849\u003cbr\u003e259\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"The Church and the Clergy,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, February 27, 1845\u003cbr\u003e260\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"The Church and the Clergy Again,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, March 27, 1845\u003cbr\u003e261\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"Daniel Webster,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, July 2, 1846\u003cbr\u003e262\u003cbr\u003eLowell, \"The Moral Movement Against Slavery,\" from The National Antislavery Standard, February 22, 1849\u003cbr\u003e264\u003cbr\u003eHorace Mann, \"Speech on the Institution of Slavery\" (1852)\u003cbr\u003e266\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Parker, The Function and Place of Conscience in Relation to the Laws of Men (1850), ed. Dean Grodzins\u003cbr\u003e273\u003cbr\u003eParker, \"Present Aspect of the Antislavery Enterprise,\" Speech to the American Antislavery Society (1856), ed. Dean Grodzins\u003cbr\u003e285\u003cbr\u003eHarrier Beecher Stowe, \"Concluding Remarks,\" from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)\u003cbr\u003e291\u003cbr\u003eMary Eastman, from Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852)\u003cbr\u003e296\u003cbr\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson, \"Lecture on Slavery\" (1855), ed. William Pannapacker\u003cbr\u003e301\u003cbr\u003eCharles Summer, The Barbarism of Slavery (1860)\u003cbr\u003e313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActs of Congress Relating to Slavery, Embracing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Ordinance of 1787, and the Wilmot Proviso of 1847\u003cbr\u003e321\u003cb\u003eMason Lowance\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include \u003ci\u003eIncrease Mather \u003c\/i\u003e(1974)\u003ci\u003e, Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution \u003c\/i\u003e(1976)\u003ci\u003e, The Language of Canaan \u003c\/i\u003e(1980)\u003ci\u003e, Typological Writings of Jonathan Edwards \u003c\/i\u003e(1993), and \u003ci\u003eThe Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” \u003c\/i\u003e(1994). He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale University and a life member of the American Antiquarian Society.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299792703717,"sku":"NP9780140437584","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140437584.jpg?v=1767721126","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/against-slavery-isbn-9780140437584","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}