Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader

Mason Lowance‏

فبراير 2000 · يتم البيع عن طريق Penguin

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"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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Mason Lowance is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Increase Mather (1974), Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution (1976), The Language of Canaan (1980), Typological Writings of Jonathan Edwards (1993), and The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1994). He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale University and a life member of the American Antiquarian Society.