The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Afterlives in North American Abolitionist Print Culture
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25 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsulm.4115
- isbn: 9782728827824
- eisbn: 9782728809677
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, « The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Afterlives in North American Abolitionist Print Culture », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.4115
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Until the 1990s, the historiography of American abolitionism tended to concentrate on what various historians have called its “second wave,” referring to the antebellum campaign for the immediate abolition of slavery led by William Lloyd Garrison and the most famous authors of slave narratives—Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Sojourner Truth—among other male and female activists. This campaign focused on slavery as an institution specific to the United States which could no longer be ...