To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement

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Contents Acknowledgments vii introduction 1 1 Puritans and slavery 8 2 black Abolitionist Writers in the Age of revolution 29 3 black Petitioning and organized Abolitionism in revolutionary massachusetts 50 4 Abolition of slavery and the slave trade 70 5 massachusetts blacks and the Growth of the northern Antislavery movement 84 6 black emigration and Abolition in the early republic 100 7 Abolitionism and the Politics of slavery in early Antebellum massachusetts 114 Afterword 133 notes 136 bibliography 155 index 169 ...