Collection of essays consists of substantially revised papers delivered at the twelfth Lowell Conference on Industrial History, June 3-5, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Those valuable people, the Africans / Ronald Bailey -- For the sake of commerce / Myron O. Stachiw -- Slavery in the North / Thomas H. O'Connor -- Southern Whiggery and economic development / Larry K. Menna -- The northern churches and the moral problem of slavery / John R. McKivigan -- Feminist abolitionists in Boston and Philadelphia / Carolyn Williams -- Needles, pens, and petitions / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven -- Blackface minstrelsy, vernacular comics, and the politics of slavery in the North / Alexander Saxton.
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