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Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition [Two Volumes]
Greenwood Milestones in African American History
 Peter Hinks, John McKivigan

0-313-33142-1/978-0-313-33142-8

Description
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.

Reviews:
-"[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." —Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Peter Hinks earned his Ph.D. 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.
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