Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

America in the Nineteenth Century

Kellie Carter Jackson

224 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans h...

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