Beyond Garrison
Beyond Garrison
£32.00
GBPWhy was Massachusetts one of the few Northern states in which African-American males enjoyed the right to vote? Why did it pass personal liberty laws, which helped protect fugitive slaves from federal authorities in the two decades immediately preceding the Civil War? Why did the Bay State at the time integrate its public facilities and public schools as well? Beyond Garrison, first published in 2005, finds answers to these important questions in unfamiliar and surprising places. Its protagonists are not the leading lights of American abolitionism grouped around William Lloyd Garrison, but lesser men and women in country towns and villages, encouraged by African-American activists throughout the state. Laurie's fresh approach trains the spotlight on the politics of such antislavery advocates. He demonstrates their penchant for third-party politics with a view toward explaining the relationship between social movements based on race, class, and nationality, on the one hand, and political insurgency, on the other.
- Political activism of African-Americans
- Bi-racial politics
- Significance of nativism
Product details
October 2005Paperback
9780521605175
366 pages
229 × 154 × 21 mm
0.502kg
31 b/w illus. 1 map 34 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. An experiment of immense consequences: from moral suasion to politics
- 2. The . . . evil from a small party: the rise of the liberty party
- 3. Our colored friends: Libertyism and the politics of race
- 4. To favor the poorest and the weakest: Libertyism and Labor Reform
- 5. Fifty thousand might have assembled: sources of free soilism
- 6. Our own time: free soilers and labor reformers
- 7. As easy as lying: complications of political reform
- 8. Prejudices against us: the limits of paternalism
- 9. Epilogue.
