" The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in
the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented
provocative speeches that, for the first time, addressed the slaves
directly rather than aiming rebukes at white owners. By
forthrightly embracing the slaves as allies and exhorting them to
take action, these three addresses pointed toward a more inclusive
and aggressive antislavery effort.These addresses were particularly
frightening to white slaveholders who were significantly in the
minority of the population in some parts of low country Georgia and
South Carolina. The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism includes the
full text of each address, as well as related documents, and
presents a detailed study of their historical context, the
reactions they provoked, and their lasting impact on U.S. history.
Stanley Harrold, professor of history at South Carolina State
University, is the author of Subversives: Antislavery Community in
Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 and The Abolitionists and the South,
1831-1861. He lives in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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