Historical sketches of the Anti-Slavery movement in the United States.
“Chicago’s activists were more than local figures.
It is possible to imagine a smooth path from Oscar dePriest, elected Chicago’s first black alderman in 1915, to President Barack Obama”(Margaret Garb).
Very rare anti-slavery pamphlet, an important step towards abolition.
Only another one copy located in the international Institutions: The Chicago History Museum.
In-8 de 16 pp. cousues.
206 X 137 mm.
Eastman, Zebina. Historical sketches of the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States: Comprising the Papers read before the National Anti-Slavery Re-Union, held in the City of Chicago, June 9 to 12, 1874.
Chicago, W. B. Keen, Cooke & Company, 1874.
In-8 de 16 pp. cousues.
206 X 137 mm.
Pages from an unpublished history "comprising the Papers read before the National Anti-Slavery Re-Union, held in the City of Chicago, June 9, to 12, 1874".
The Re-Union committee itself was to be the author, but must have run into financial hard times.
Before 1833 the anti-slavery movement in America was largely unorganized. There was a scattering of local societies, such as the New York City Manumission Society (founded 1785) and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (founded 1789). The first national society was the American Colonization Society, established in 1817.
In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts founded the newspaper The Liberator and in the following year he set up the New England Anti-Slavery Society. These years saw an enormous output of pamphlets, tracts, newspapers and abolition petitions.
“Chicago elected its first black alderman in 1915, twenty-six years before New York did and the city was the first to elect a black congressman after the collapse of Reconstruction. Chicago was home to the nation’s leading antilynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, to several of the most prominent black ministers, to one of the earliest African American hospitals and to influential African American newspapers.
Chicago’s activists were more than local figures. Their debates and campaigns played out in the national and at times international areas. It is possible to imagine a smooth path from Oscar dePriest, elected Chicago’s first black alderman in 1915, to President Barack Obama. But simple visions flatten history and lose sight of the profound and hard-fought transformations in American politics in the twentieth century. Such straight lines though time overlook the hard work of organizing voters faced with a long string of defeats, the unexpected courage of activists confronting horrible violence and all the twists, turns and specific conditions that led to unexpected and transformative events. Oscar dePriest, like Barack Obama nearly a century later, owed his victory to the tireless local activists” (Margaret Garb).
1 seul exemplaire localisé dans les Institutions publiques internationales : The Chicago History Museum.
