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The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of Racial Justice

Vrevich, Kevin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565949608511834

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
“The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism” tracks the emergence of abolitionism in greater Rhode Island, focusing on Providence and the surrounding communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Three major lines of Rhode Island’s anti-slavery activism during the early republic—Quaker anti-slavery sentiment, the abolitionist campaign of the Providence Abolition Society, and Rhode Island’s free black community—came together to provide the basis for William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator and his New England Anti-Slavery Society. Quaker and free black communities in greater Rhode Island provided the initial support for Garrison’s calls for immediate abolitionism. The work of abolitionist Quaker women from greater Rhode Island fused the question of women’s rights with that of abolition and split the national abolitionist movement as a result. By the time the New England Yearly Meeting withdrew formal Quaker support for abolition in 1840, the movement bore the imprint of Quaker activism.
John Brooke (Advisor)
254 p.
African American Studies; American History; Womens Studies
history; antislavery; abolitionism; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Massachusetts; slave trade; Quakers; African American community; women abolitionists

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  • Vrevich, K. (2019). The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of Racial Justice [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565949608511834

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vrevich, Kevin. The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of Racial Justice. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565949608511834.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vrevich, Kevin. "The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of Racial Justice." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565949608511834

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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