The emergence of a sophisticated antislavery ideology and the rise of organized opposition to slavery in the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented nothing less than one of the great intellectual and social revolutions in the history of the world.
List of Entries Preface Introduction Guide to Related Topics Chronology of Antislavery, Abolition, and Emancipation Selected Bibliography Index List of Contributors
Peter Hinks earned his PhD in American history from Yale University in 1993. He has taught at Yale University, Bennington College, Grinnell College, and Hamilton College. He is the author of the award-winning book, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. He works professionally in public history and has recently co-curated the new exhibit at the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Intimate Strangers: Slavery and Freedom in Fairfield County, 1700-1850. Dr. Hinks is the senior historian for a major exhibit on slavery and its demise in New York City, Africans in New York, 1620-1865, which opened at the New York Historical Society in October 2005. With the late Professor John Blassingame and Professor Jack McKivigan, he co-edited Frederick Douglass' first two autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom. John McKivigan is the Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of United States History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and author of The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (1984). He also is the coeditor of The Historical Moment: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (1994), with Randall M. Miller, Sectionalism and Religion: Essays on the Slavery Controversy in the American Churches (1998), with Mitchell Snay, and Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (1999), with Stanley Harrold. McKivigan is the recipient of many fellowships and grants.
The scope extends beyond North America and the Atlantic world, and
encompasses ancient times through the 20th century. The set is
thematically organized according to antislavery and its emergence
as an organized movement; the immediate precipitants of abolition
and the processes of its passage; and the enactment of emancipation
and its consequences. Arranged alphabetically, entries contain
boldface cross-references, followed by a short further reading list
that includes print and electronic resources. Navigation is
enhanced through see references. Volume 1's strong chronology
includes international and related events dating from 1441 through
2005. Especially useful are the introduction, which provides an
overview of the history of antislavery, abolitionism, and
emancipation; Guide to Related Topics; selected bibliography;
inclusion of forces and people who opposed abolition; and
presentation of abolition and emancipation as separate processes.
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general
readers.
*Choice*
Both of these two entries in Greenwoods Milestones in African
American History series offer a solid foothold for high school or
college students beginning research on slave resistance or
abolition. They cover people, places, philosophies, and popular
culture and share many common features: readable, signed A-to-Z
entries with short source lists; general bibliographies;
chronologies; black-and-white illustrations; and subject indexes.
With 400 cross-referenced entries, Antislavery provides a global
look at efforts to combat slavery….Recommended for high school,
college, and large public libraries. (Reviewed in conjunction with
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Rodrigues,
Greenwood Press)
*Library Journal*
[T]his set covers the ideology and activism of the various
international movements that resisted and ultimately led to the
repeal of slavery. Though the focus is mainly on the Atlantic World
in the 1700s and 1800s, entries trace the changing fortunes of
slavery worldwide, from early beliefs in the necessity,
righteousness, and divine approval of the peculiar institution to
the later beliefs in the mid-nineteenth century that slavery was
evidence of moral decay in a society and little short of evil
incarnate. Overall, the encyclopedia outlines and explains the
various antislavery movements-their origins, structures,
accomplishments, seminal figures, and historic import. The
consequences of manumission are covered in great detail as well,
with reverberations that often reach to the present day….The
entries are succinct and informative and full of cross-references
and suggestions for further reading. . . . [T]his is a fine
resource for users ranging from undergraduates to general
readers.
*Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin*
This two-volume encyclopedia contains approximately 300 entries on
topics in antislavery, abolition, and emancipation, with an
objective of detailing the topics in an accessible manner and
showing the broad range of forms these forces followed in history.
It has three thematic concerns: illustrating the various forms of
antislavery and its emergence as an organized movement, showing the
causes of abolition and its passage, and describing the process of
emancipation and its consequences. Slavery is discussed in many
societies and time periods, including the twentieth century, with a
focus on the Atlantic world. Following a historical introduction,
the entries detail specific countries, important figures and
leaders, economic issues, ideology and philosophy, literature,
music, the law, organizations and societies, politics, rebellions,
religion, slave trade, social and cultural issues, war, and women.
Emancipation and abolition are treated separately.
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