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Northern Labor and Antislavery: A Documentary History

Northern Labor and Antislavery: A Documentary History

Shapiro, Herbert
Foner, Philip S.
Foner, Philip Sheldon

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in American History, Book 157

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0313278075
ISBN13: 9780313278075
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Mar 14 1994
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dailies as well as from abolitionist journals and the labor press. The voices heard from include prominent abolitionist leaders, grass roots activists, representatives of the labor movement, land reformers, and utopian advocates of universal reform. The book shows labor's response to such critical episodes as the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution, and the election of Abraham Lincoln.

Themes covered include the contrast between wage labor and chattel slavery, the abolitionists' outreach to white labor, the views of reformers who held that a universal solution to the labor question took priority over abolition, the varying responses of labor activists to the slavery question, and labor's growing role in the 1850s as a constituent in an antislavery coalition. At the same time, the book notes the continued presence of racism and specific instances of friction between white and black workers, as in the explosive violence of the 1863 New York City Draft Riot.

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