Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays by a distinguished group of historians, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from a marginalized status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War. Philadelphia was the home to the Society of Friends, which offered the first public attack on slavery in the 1680s; the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the western world's first antislavery group; and to generations of abolitionists, who organized some of early America's most important civil rights groups. These abolitionists--black, white, religious, secular, male, female--grappled with the meaning of black freedom earlier and more consistently than anyone else in early American culture. Cutting-edge academic views illustrate Philadelphia's antislavery movement, how it survived societal opposition, and remained vital to evolving notions of racial justice. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays by a distinguished group of historians, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalized status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War. Philadelphia was the home to the Society of Friends, which offered the first public attack on slavery in the 1680s; the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the western world's first antislavery group; and to generations of abolitionists who organized some of early America's most important civil rights groups. These abolitionists -- black, white, religious, secular, male, female -- grappled with the meaning of black freedom earlier and more consistently than anyone else in early American culture. Cutting-edge academic views illustrate Philadelphia's antislavery movement, how it survived societal opposition, and how it remained vital to evolving notions of racial justice. Slavery, freedom, and Philadelphia's struggle for brotherly love, 1685 to 1861 / Ira Berlin The origins of antislavery in Pennsylvania : early abolitionists and Benjamin Franklin's Road not taken / David Waldstreicher Self-help and self-determination : Black Philadelphians and the dimensions of freedom / Julie Winch Race and citizenship in the early republic / Gary Nash The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the struggle for racial justice / Richard Newman Philadelphia abolitionists and antislavery cosmopolitanism / W. Caleb McDaniel From natural rights to national sins : Philadelphia's churches face antislavery / Dee E. Andrews Staging slavery : representing race and abolitionism on and off the Philadelphia stage / Heather S. Nathans "Beautiful providences" : William Still, the Vigilance Committee, and abolitionists in the age of sectionalism / Elizabeth Varon. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against slavery and racial injustice in one of early AmericaÆs most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays by a distinguished group of historiansùincluding Ira Berlin, Gary Nash, Elizabeth Varon, David Waldstreicher, and Julie Winchùthe volume recounts the rise of the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from a marginalized status during the colonial era to a more widespread, if not universally popular, Civil War presence. Considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalised status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War.