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(More customer reviews)Dr. Debra Anne Susie was another editor for The Black Abolitionist Papers.
Her Ph.D. in the Humanities at the Florida State University was later published by the same title by the University of Georgia Press (1988): "In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida" (244 pages). Her book is also available at amazon.com!
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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, more than any other event in the 1850s, provoked a widespread, emotionally charged reaction among northern blacks. Entire communities responded to the law that threatened free blacks as well as fugitive slaves with arbitrary arrest and enslavement. This volume pays particular attention to black resistance through such community efforts as vigilance committees and the underground railroad.
This five-volume documentary collection-culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper editorials-reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada (the home of some 60,000 black Americans on the eve of the Civil War), the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War. In particular, these volumes focus on their reactions to African colonization and the idea of gradual emancipation, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the promise brought by emancipation during the war.
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