TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aptheker,Herbert
AU  - Sanders,Inrwin T.
TI  - Abolitionism: a revolutionary movement 
T2  - Twayne's social movements past and present
SN  - 0805797025
AV  - E 449 .A156 1989
U1  - 326/.0973 19
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Boston, MA.
PB  - Twayne Publishers
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliography (pages 183-185) and index; Chapter one Early seeding of abolitionism -- Chapter two Jefferson's "Fire bell in the night" -- Chapter three Revolutionary consciousness: supporters and opponents -- Chapter four Social class, labor, and abolitionism -- Chapter five Organization of the abolitionist movement -- Chapter six Abolitionism, racism, and the Afro-American people -- Chapter seven Women and abolitionism -- Chapter eight Political prisoners and martyrs -- Chapter nine John Brown and revolution -- Chapter ten The Civil War as revolution: abolitionism's culmination
N2  - "Supporting his bold thesis that the struggle to abolish slavery  was a genuine revolution, not merely a reform movement, Herbert Aptheker shows how the confiscation of billions of dollars worth of private property in the form of slaves undermined the nation's foundational political, economic, social, and moral order.  Aptheker treats in full the essential role that blacks played in their own liberation and reexamines the leaders, the motivation, and the successes and failures of the Abolitionist movement.  His account of this revolution in American power relationships is one that every serious student of American history will value." -- from the back cover; Herbert Aptheker was on the faculties of Bryn Mawr College, City University of New York, Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, Santa Clara University, Humboldt University (Berlin, GDR), and the Law School, University of California at Berkeley.  His articles and reviews appeared in scholarly journals starting in 1937.  His first publication was "The Negro in the Civil War (1938), followed by "The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement" (1941).  His "American Negro Slave Revolts" was first issued in 1943.  Among other publications are "A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States" in three volumes (1951 - 74), the thirty-eight volumes of "The Collected Works of W.E.B. DuBois (1973-86), three volumes of "Du Bois's Correspondence" (1973-78), and certain volumes bu Du Bois not published during his lifetime, including "Education of Black People" (1975) and "Against Racism: Essays and Papers, 1887-1961" (1985)
ER  -