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To Plead Our Own Cause - African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement (Hardcover)
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To Plead Our Own Cause - African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement (Hardcover)
Series: American Abolitionism and Antislavery
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The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when
William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831-a
phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary
mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations
such as the American Anti-Slavery Society. While the period from
1831 to 1865 is known as the heyday of radical abolitionism, the
work of Garrison's predecessors in Massachusetts was critical in
laying the foundation for antebellum abolitionism. To Plead Our Own
Cause explores the significant contributions of African Americans
in the Bay State to both local and nationwide antislavery activity
before 1831 and demonstrates that their efforts represent nothing
less than the beginning of organized abolitionist activity in
America. Fleshing out the important links between Reformed
theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the
antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron argues that
African Americans in Massachusetts initiated organized abolitionism
in America and that their antislavery ideology had its origins in
Puritan thought and the particular system of slavery that this
religious ideology shaped in Massachusetts. The political activity
of black abolitionists was central in effecting the abolition of
slavery and the slave trade within the Bay State, and it was
likewise key in building a national antislavery movement in the
years of the early republic. Even while abolitionist strategies
were evolving, much of the rhetoric and tactics that well-known
abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
employed in the mid-nineteenth century had their origins among
blacks in Massachusetts during the eighteenth century.
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