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From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists--including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimké--the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery--the most powerful economic and political institution of the age--across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers. Sharply written and highly engrossing, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression.

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""Richard Newman's Abolitionism...is a concise and well-written text that pulls apart the complexity of the abolitionist movement and renders it understandable and engaging."" -- ""Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University""

"""Richard Newman's Abolitionism...is a concise and well-written text that pulls apart the complexity of the abolitionist movement and renders it understandable and engaging."" -- ""Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University"""

Richard Newman's Abolitionism...is a concise and well-written text that pulls apart the complexity of the abolitionist movement and renders it understandable and engaging. -- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University

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Richard S. Newman is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His books include The Transformation of American Abolitionism and Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the Black Founding Fathers, and the AME Church. He is the former director of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Janina Edwards, a graduate of New York University's Tisch Schools of the Arts, recorded her first audiobook in 1987. She was born in Chicago, soaked in New York City's African and West Indian accents for 11 years, and for the past twenty years has swum in the swagger of the south (Atlanta, Georgia). As a result, she excels in portraying authentic characters and voices the African Diaspora. Her 2018 audiobook, The Wedding Date, is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, and Voice of Freedom (2016, Dreamscape) was an Audie Award finalist. In addition to narrating audiobooks, she is a certified yoga teacher, sings kirtan, and plays the violin.

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