Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

MCCARTHY, Timothy Patrick and John Stauffer, edited by

ISBN 10: 1565849922 / ISBN 13: 9781565849921

Published by The New Press, New York, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism
• Publisher: The New Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1565849922
• ISBN 13: 9781565849921
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.

The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical impulses of white, male, middle-class reformers, obscuring the contributions of many African Americans, women, and others.

Prophets of Protest, the first collection of writings on abolitionism in more than a generation, draws on an immense new body of research in African American studies, literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. The book incorporates new thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film and provides new perspectives on familiar figures such as Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown.

With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, Prophets of Protest is a long overdue update of one of the central reform movements in America's history.

About the Author

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is Lecturer on History and Literature and on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He is co-editor, with John McMillian, of The Radical Reader (The New Press). John Stauffer teaches English and American civilization, also at Harvard. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men, won the 2002 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery. They both live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Michael Fellman is Professor of Liberal Studies at Simon Fraser University and author of Twisting the Cross. Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at CUNY and the author of some twenty books, including Paul Robeson (The New Press).