The creation of an
abolitionist discourse or set of ideas, strategies, and modes of expression in opposition to slavery forms the foundation of Anadolu-Okur's argument.
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Abolitionists have used the phenomenon of wrongful conviction to change the story about capital punishment and the public's understanding of what is at stake when the state kills.
Dismantling Slavery is not simply about Douglass and Garrison, though that is its most prevalent duo; it also examines the social, political, and cultural networks of the
abolitionists themselves.
Early
abolitionists, she argues, were the nation's original critical thinkers: Phyllis Wheatley, she points out, was no "lone genius" but was "representative of an emerging African American antislavery critique of revolutionary republicanism" (31).
SLAVERY | WOMEN
ABOLITIONISTS | HISTORY | BIOGRAPHY | HUMAN TRAFFICKING
According to Elkins, northern
abolitionists "abstracted" slavery from a social problem into a moral sin.
Most of the remaining essays focus on the religious ideals inspiring female
abolitionists. Alison Twells argues convincingly that theological specificity has been lost in scholarship on abolitionism and Christianity.
The fervour of antebellum
abolitionists, he argues, was a response to the fanaticism of proslavery Southerners.
They all belonged to the same man, the
abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy.
Blue's "The Moral Journey of a Political
Abolitionist: Salmon P.
One
abolitionist MP estimated the number of fresh Africans needed to bring Trinidad to the same level of development as Jamaica at one million.