Against slavery: an abolitionist reader
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- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 394 KB
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike." --Amazon.com
This 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.
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From the Trade Paperback edition.
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