Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery
Journalism History › Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, July 2009
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Summary
Risley sorts out at least the major subtexts of abolition as they emerged from the various factions that in many current works result in an alphabet soup of abolitionist groups, including the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), the American and Foreign AntiSlavery Society (AFASS), and the New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS), not to mention some other groups such as the Western Anti-Slavery Society, the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and a multitude of women's groups (e.g., the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Society). With a focus on masthead names and because it was men who published the newspapers, the history of abolition here does not fully develop the roles that women played in the abolitionist press.
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Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery
Risley, Vota. Abolition and the Press: The Moral Struggle Against Slavery. Evanston, 111.: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 229 pp. $24.95.
The history of the antislavery movement in antebellum America is very much a history of media because aboliti...See the full content of this document
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