HeinOnline's Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers . In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government. This Documentary History Of The African American Struggle For Freedom And Equality Collects Eighty-nine Documents That Represent The Best Of The Recently Published Five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In These Texts, African Americans Tell Their Own Stories Of The Struggle To End Slavery And Claim Their Rights As American Citizens, Of The Battle Against Colonization And The Back To Africa Movement, And Of Their Troubled Relationship With The Federal Government.--from Publisher Description. The Rise Of Black Abolitionism : The Colonization Controversy; The Growth Of Black Abolitionism; The Rise Of Immediatism; Moral Reform; Prejudice; Two Abolitionisms -- African Americans And The Antislavery Movement : Blacks As Advocates; Slave Narratives; Black Women Abolitionists; Antislavery And The Black Community; Problems In The Movement -- Black Independence : A New Direction; The African American Press; In The Common Defense; Antislavery Politics; Black Antislavery Tactics; By All Just And Necessary Means -- Black Abolitionists And The National Crisis : The Slave Power; The Fugitive Slave Law; Black Emigration; Black Nationality; Blacks And John Brown -- Civil War : Debating The War; The Emancipation Proclamation; Blacks And Lincoln; The Black Military Experience; The Movement Goes South; Reconstruction. C. Peter Ripley, Editor ; Coeditors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [279]-289) And Index. The African American struggle to claim the United States as a homeland gave rise to the black abolitionist movement.